Model comparison
Ministral 8B vs Mixtral 8x7B
Ministral 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Ministral 8B leads 60.5 to 51.0.
- Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Ministral 8B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 32K.
Side by side
| Ministral 8B | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.2 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 32K |
| Max output | 262K | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | 1126 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148), Mixtral 8x7B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1115 |
| DTBench | 45.7% | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | 10% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | 30.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | 1088 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multilingual Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | 1055 |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | 1090 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |
Instruction Following Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
Long Context Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | 1115 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 8B better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Ministral 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Ministral 8B or Mixtral 8x7B?
Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.
Is Ministral 8B or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Ministral 8B does, with 262K tokens against 32K.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Mixtral 8x7B share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.