Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 36.0% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $17.80 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
This upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released with significant improvements in coding and agentic tool use. Built to deliver enhanced performance in software engineering tasks, it brought substantial gains in reasoning and problem-solving while introducing the groundbreaking computer use capability in public beta, allowing it to interact with computer interfaces like a human.
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.
6 days newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Ministral 8B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Ministral 8B Instruct

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Ministral 8B Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI