Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Haiku 4.5 offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $5.80 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Haiku 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5 continues Anthropic's tradition of fast, efficient models in the fourth generation Claude family. Designed to maintain the hallmark speed and cost-effectiveness of the Haiku line while incorporating advancements from the Claude 4 series, it serves applications requiring rapid processing and quick turnaround times.
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.
12 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
2025-10-15
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Haiku 4.5

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5
2025-02-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic

Ministral 8B Instruct

Claude Haiku 4.5

Ministral 8B Instruct

Claude Haiku 4.5

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI