# Ministral 8B vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

> Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/ministral-8b-vs-qwen2-5-coder
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.2 | — |
| Rank | 325 | — |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.14 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |

## Math

- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |

## Multilingual

- Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | — |

## Long Context

- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Ministral 8B better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.