Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Ministral 8B

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Ministral 8B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 12.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 95.9% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 14.9% for Ministral 8B.
  • Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index45.028.2
Released2025-03-252024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K262K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.15
Results tracked7817

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Coding14521202
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—11.1%
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts14551191
DTBench82.4%45.7%
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Math14501188
MATH Level 595.9%14.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
GPQA Diamond85.3%27.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%7.4%
LMArena Expert14521170
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Ministral 8B: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Non-English14511165
LMArena Chinese15071193
LMArena Russian14611195
LMArena French1472—
LMArena German1487—
LMArena Japanese1461—
LMArena Korean1434—
LMArena Spanish1473—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following14371161
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Longer Query14491212
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProMinistral 8B
LMArena Text14581191
LMArena Creative Writing14541175
LMArena Multi-Turn14531166
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Ministral 8B?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Ministral 8B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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