Model comparison
Claude 2 vs Ministral 8B
Ministral 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.2 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 8B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Ministral 8B leads 25.7 to 9.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 34.7% for Claude 2 and 27.1% for Ministral 8B.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2 | Ministral 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 28.2 |
| Released | 2023-07-11 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1202 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |
Reasoning Claude 2 leads
Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 45.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | — |
Math Ministral 8B leads
Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 14.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |
Knowledge Claude 2 leads
Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1161 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1212 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1166 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2 better than Ministral 8B?
Ministral 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.2 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Ministral 8B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.