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Claude 3.5 SonnetvsMinistral 3 8B
Ministral 3 8B leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Ministral 3 8B is 60x cheaper per token. Ministral 3 8B has the larger context window (256K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 2
Ministral 3 8B leads
Cheaper per token
Ministral 3 8B
60x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Ministral 3 8B
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Mistral AI
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic · released 2024-10-22
textvision
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-02
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 2 only Claude 3.5 Sonnet · 1 only Ministral 3 8B| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 3 8B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% ↗epoch | 66.8% ↗ | -11.5 pt | Ministral 3 8B |
| AIME 2025 | 3.3% ↗matharena | 78.7% ↗ | -75.4 pt | Ministral 3 8B |
| Only Claude 3.5 Sonnet reports · 2 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 49% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 8.5% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Ministral 3 8B reports · 1 | ||||
| LiveCodeBench | not reported | 61.6% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude 3.5 Sonnet minus Ministral 3 8B in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Ministral 3 8B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 256K tokens | Ministral 3 8B |
| Max output | 8K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.015 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $0.3 | Ministral 3 8B |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 3 | — |
Reliability
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