Model comparison
Mercury vs Ministral 8B
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Ministral 8B in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 39.6.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Ministral 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 28.2 |
| Released | — | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | 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 Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1202 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mercury: —, Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1191 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1161 |
Long Context Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1212 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1166 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Ministral 8B?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Ministral 8B better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Ministral 8B share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.