# Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Ministral 8B

> Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-7-sonnet-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 9 categories and Ministral 8B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 39.8 to 12.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 91.2% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 14.9% for Ministral 8B.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 28.2 |
| Rank | 164 | 325 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136)
- Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1202 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50)
- Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277)
- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1191 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153)
- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | 14.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130)
- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | 27.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1170 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95)
- Ministral 8B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179)
- Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1195 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | — |
| LMArena German | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125)
- Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1161 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10)
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1212 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150)
- Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1166 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Ministral 8B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Ministral 8B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.