Model comparison
Ministral 8B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Ministral 8B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.8 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Ministral 8B leads 23.7 to 11.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 27.1% for Ministral 8B and 35.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.17 / $0.70 for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.8 | 28.6 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 128K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.7% | 47.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.44 |
Math Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | — |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 8B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Ministral 8B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.8 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Ministral 8B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 7B Instruct lists at $0.17 and $0.70.
Is Ministral 8B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.