Model comparison

Ministral 8B vs Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B

Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 1 category and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads 25.0 to 12.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 14.9% for Ministral 8B and 42.7% for Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B.

Side by side

Ministral 8B and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B specifications
Ministral 8BTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
ProviderMistral AIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index28.233.0
Released2024-10-012024-11-21
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.15—
Results tracked1714

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Category by category

Coding Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads

Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 36.0 (#214)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Coding12021235

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard11.1%—

Reasoning Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads

Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 23.9 (#169)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Hard Prompts11911220
DTBench45.7%—

Math Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 14.2 (#303)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Math11881242
MATH Level 514.9%42.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.4%

Knowledge Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads

Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 25.0 (#264)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
GPQA Diamond27.1%46.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
LMArena Expert1170—

Multilingual Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads

Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 39.9 (#222)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Non-English11651236
LMArena Chinese11931249
LMArena Russian11951246

Instruction Following Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads

Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 64.8 (#227)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Instruction Following11611233

Long Context Too close to call

Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 37.1 (#222)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Longer Query12121224

Writing & Preference Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads

Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 45.6 (#223)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 8BTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Text11911256
LMArena Creative Writing11751231
LMArena Multi-Turn11661252

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 8B better than Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B?

Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Ministral 8B or Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B better for coding?

Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has 14.

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