Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3 Opus leads with 25.5% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $89.80 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3 Opus is available on 3 providers. Overall, Claude 3 Opus is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B was developed as a compact yet capable model from Mistral AI, designed to provide strong instruction-following with just 8 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring efficient deployment while maintaining reliable performance, it represents Mistral's smallest production-ready offering.
7 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Ministral 8B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Ministral 8B Instruct

Claude 3 Opus

Ministral 8B Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI