Model comparison
Codestral vs Ministral 3B
Codestral is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 4.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Codestral's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $0.90 for Codestral.
- Codestral accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 131K.
- Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codestral | Ministral 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 26.2 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 131K |
| Max output | 8K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | $0.10 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Codestral | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Reasoning Codestral leads
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| DTBench | — | 51.7% |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.1 |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.4% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 25.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than Ministral 3B?
Codestral is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 4.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Codestral's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Codestral or Ministral 3B?
Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Codestral lists at $0.30 and $0.90.
Which has the bigger context window?
Codestral does, with 256K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and Ministral 3B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.