Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 26.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Haiku is available on 3 providers. Overall, Magistral Small 2506 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku was developed as the next generation of Anthropic's fastest model, offering similar speed to Claude 3 Haiku while surpassing Claude 3 Opus on many intelligence benchmarks. Built with low latency, improved instruction following, and accurate tool use, it serves user-facing products, specialized sub-agent tasks, and data-heavy applications.
Mistral AI
Magistral Small was created as an efficient reasoning-focused variant, designed to bring analytical capabilities to applications with tighter resource constraints. Built to balance problem-solving depth with practical deployment needs, it extends reasoning-enhanced AI to broader use cases.
7 months newer

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
2024-10-22

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Magistral Small 2506
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Magistral Small 2506

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Magistral Small 2506

Magistral Small 2506