# Claude Instant vs Ministral 8B

> Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Ministral 8B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 28.2 |
| Rank | — | 325 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

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

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1202 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

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

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

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 45.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | — |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

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

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

## Instruction Following

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

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

## Long Context

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

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

## Writing & Preference

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

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

## FAQ

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

Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.