Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $17.80 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
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

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

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

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Ministral 8B Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4

Ministral 8B Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI