Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Ministral 8B Instruct offers 24.0K more tokens in context window than Claude Opus 4.1. Ministral 8B Instruct is $89.80 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.1 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Opus 4.1 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1 represents an iteration within the Claude 4 Opus line, built to deliver refined performance in complex reasoning and analysis tasks. Developed as part of Anthropic's flagship tier, it incorporates improvements to the foundational capabilities that define the Opus family of models.
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.
9 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
2025-08-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Opus 4.1

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Opus 4.1

Ministral 8B Instruct

Claude Opus 4.1

Ministral 8B Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI