Model comparison
Llama 3.2 90B vs Ministral 8B
Llama 3.2 90B and Ministral 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.5 vs 28.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.2 90B scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 8B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Ministral 8B leads 25.7 to 11.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B and 14.9% for Ministral 8B.
Side by side
| Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 27.5 | 28.2 |
| Released | 2024-09-24 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1202 |
Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |
| BALROG | 27.3% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | 0.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 125.5 | — |
Math Ministral 8B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 39.4% | 14.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |
Knowledge Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41% | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| MMLU | 80.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124), Ministral 8B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1000 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1161 |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1212 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1166 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.2 90B better than Ministral 8B?
Llama 3.2 90B and Ministral 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.5 vs 28.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 90B and Ministral 8B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 90B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.