Model comparison
Ministral 8B vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.35 / $1.40 for Qwen2.5 14B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.8 | 38.2 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 128K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $1.40 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads
Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: 37.1 (#187)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 39.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |
Math Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | — |
| MMLU | — | 79.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 8B better than Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?
Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, Ministral 8B or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?
Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 14B Instruct lists at $0.35 and $1.40.
Is Ministral 8B or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.1 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct has 3.