Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Ministral 8B
Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Ministral 8B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Ministral 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 27.8 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1202 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |
Reasoning Claude Instant leads
Claude Instant: 18.8, Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 45.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1161 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1212 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1166 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Ministral 8B?
Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Ministral 8B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.