Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 8.0K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $17.80 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
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.
11 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
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Ministral 8B Instruct
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