# Claude 2 vs Ministral 8B

> Ministral 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.2 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 8B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Ministral 8B leads 25.7 to 9.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 34.7% for Claude 2 and 27.1% for Ministral 8B.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 28.2 |
| Rank | 346 | 325 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1202 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2: —
- Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 45.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | — |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 14.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1161 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1212 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1166 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.2 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Ministral 8B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.