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Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Ministral 3B

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Ministral 3B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Opus leads 24.5 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 14.4% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.526.2
Released2024-02-292024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.10
Results tracked466

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
LMArena Coding1264—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Ministral 3B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
DTBench61.6%51.7%
LMCA17%5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91118.1
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1245—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Ministral 3B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
MATH Level 537.5%14.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—

Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond47.2%25.3%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1258—
LMArena Chinese1248—
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1280—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1259—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1262—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
LMArena Multi-Turn1275—
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Ministral 3B?

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Ministral 3B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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