# Ministral 8B vs Mistral

> Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 6 categories and Mistral in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Ministral 8B leads 60.5 to 52.6.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Ministral 8B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.2 | 29.9 |
| Rank | 325 | 303 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)
- Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | 1162 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)
- Mistral: —

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

## Reasoning

- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)
- Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1149 |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |

## Math

- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)
- Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1180 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)
- Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |

## Multilingual

- Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)
- Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | 1109 |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | 1168 |
| LMArena French | — | 1180 |
| LMArena German | — | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1032 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1143 |

## Instruction Following

- Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)
- Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | 1152 |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |

## Long Context

- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)
- Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | 1153 |

## Writing & Preference

- Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)
- Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 66% |

## FAQ

### Is Ministral 8B better than Mistral?

Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Ministral 8B or Mistral better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Mistral share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.