Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 4 Maverick leads with 13.6% higher average benchmark score. Llama 4 Maverick offers 1.7M more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $0.57 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick supports multimodal inputs. Llama 4 Maverick is available on 7 providers. Overall, Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Meta
Llama 4 Maverick was developed as a variant in Meta's fourth-generation language model family, designed to explore specialized capabilities and training approaches. Built to push the boundaries of open-source model development, it represents experimentation with advanced techniques in the Llama lineage.
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.
5 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
2025-04-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 4 Maverick

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Llama 4 Maverick

Ministral 8B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 4 Maverick
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita

Llama 4 Maverick

Ministral 8B Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick

Ministral 8B Instruct
Sambanova
Together

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI