# Ministral 3B vs Mistral 7B

> Ministral 3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 25.6 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/ministral-3b-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 3B scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Ministral 3B leads 24.5 to 7.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 14.4% for Ministral 3B and 3.7% for Mistral 7B.
- Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.25 for Mistral 7B.
- Ministral 3B accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 8K.

## Snapshot

| | Ministral 3B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.6 | 22.9 |
| Rank | 336 | 346 |
| Context | 128K | 8K |
| Input $/M | $0.04 | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | $0.04 | $0.25 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Ministral 3B: —
- Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)

| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Reasoning

- Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)
- Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)

| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.7% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.08 | 111.97 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1067 |
| LMCA | 5.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)
- Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)

| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 14.4% | 3.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1085 |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)
- Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)

| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 25.3% | 15.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1036 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multilingual

- Ministral 3B: —
- Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)

| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1009 |
| LMArena French | — | 1036 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |

## Instruction Following

- Ministral 3B: —
- Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)

| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1060 |

## Long Context

- Ministral 3B: —
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)

| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Ministral 3B: —
- Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)

| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1062 |

## FAQ

### Is Ministral 3B better than Mistral 7B?

Ministral 3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 25.6 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Ministral 3B or Mistral 7B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; Mistral 7B lists at $0.25 and $0.25.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Ministral 3B does, with 128K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do Ministral 3B and Mistral 7B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 3B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.