Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Ministral 8B
Ministral 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.2 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 8B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Ministral 8B leads 25.7 to 10.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Claude 2.1 and 27.1% for Ministral 8B.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Ministral 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 28.2 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Ministral 8B leads
Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1202 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 45.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | — |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
Math Ministral 8B leads
Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
Knowledge Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1161 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1212 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1166 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Ministral 8B?
Ministral 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.2 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Ministral 8B better for coding?
Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Ministral 8B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.