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Claude Sonnet 4vsMinistral 3 14B
Claude Sonnet 4 leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. Ministral 3 14B is 45x cheaper per token. Ministral 3 14B has the larger context window (256K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 0
Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Cheaper per token
Ministral 3 14B
45x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Ministral 3 14B
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Mistral AI
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic · released 2025-05-22
textvision
Ministral 3 14B
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-02
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 3 only Claude Sonnet 4 · 2 only Ministral 3 14B| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Ministral 3 14B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% ↗epoch | 71.2% ↗ | +8 pt | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4 reports · 3 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2024 (no extended thinking) | 33.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 71.1% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Ministral 3 14B reports · 2 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | not reported | 64.6% ↗ | — | — |
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 Sonnet 4 minus Ministral 3 14B 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 Sonnet 4 | Ministral 3 14B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 256K tokens | Ministral 3 14B |
| Max output | 64K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $0.2 ↗ | Ministral 3 14B |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $0.2 ↗ | Ministral 3 14B |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.02 ↗ | Ministral 3 14B |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $0.4 | Ministral 3 14B |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 3 | — |
Reliability
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