Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Ministral 8B
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Ministral 8B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 28.6 to 12.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 56.9% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 14.9% for Ministral 8B.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 28.2 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1202 |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1191 |
| DTBench | 67.8% | 45.7% |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Ministral 8B leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | 14.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 27.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1170 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Ministral 8B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1195 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | — |
| LMArena German | 1297 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1161 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1212 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1166 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Ministral 8B?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Ministral 8B better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Ministral 8B share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.