Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Ministral 8B

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 7 categories and Ministral 8B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 29.4 to 12.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 70.4% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 14.9% for Ministral 8B.
  • Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Ministral 8B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index32.128.2
Released2024-02-152024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked4517

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
LMArena Coding12941202
WeirdML22.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
CadEval34%—
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—11.1%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—
BALROG21%—

Reasoning Ministral 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts12961191
DTBench59%45.7%
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench27.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73—
ForecastBench58.4—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
LMArena Math13151188
MATH Level 570.4%14.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%—
Omni-MATH36.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
GPQA Diamond57.2%27.1%
LMArena Expert12791170
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations13.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%—
MMLU86.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Ministral 8B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
LMArena Non-English13121165
LMArena Chinese13311193
LMArena Russian13201195
LMArena French1302—
LMArena German1286—
LMArena Japanese1292—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Spanish1311—

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following12971161
IFEval83.7%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
LMArena Longer Query13081212

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Ministral 8B
LMArena Text13191191
LMArena Creative Writing13331175
LMArena Multi-Turn12961166
WildBench81.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Ministral 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Ministral 8B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.2 vs 35.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Ministral 8B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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