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Atria Dawn Preview vs Ministral 8B Instruct

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to -4.7.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to -4.7, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Ministral 8B Instruct

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.10/M input and $0.10/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
-4.7
#352
Reasoning
50.5
#12
-4.8
#343
Coding
36.2
#22
-14.5
#267
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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—
Input price
— / M
$0.10 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.10 / M
Context window
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128,000

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 11 for Ministral 8B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Ministral 8B Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

736.0B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 736.0B more parameters than Ministral 8B Instruct, making it 9177.0% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
8.0Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
8.0B
Ministral 8B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Ministral 8B Instruct specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Ministral 8B Instruct specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Wed Sep 16 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Ministral 8B Instruct uses Mistral Research License.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral Research License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Ministral 8B Instruct was released on 2024-10-16.

Atria Dawn Preview is 23 months newer than Ministral 8B Instruct.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

5 days ago

1.9yr newer
Ministral 8B Instruct

Oct 16, 2024

1.9 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Ministral 8B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Ministral 8B Instruct.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Ministral 8B Instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to -4.7. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Ministral 8B Instruct is made by Mistral AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Ministral 8B Instruct in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Ministral 8B Instruct scores MT-Bench: 83.0%, Winogrande: 75.3%, ARC-C: 71.9%, Arena Hard: 70.9%, MBPP pass@1: 70.0%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Ministral 8B Instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Ministral 8B Instruct supports 128K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Ministral 8B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs -4.7), licensing (MIT vs Mistral Research License). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Ministral 8B Instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Ministral 8B Instruct is developed by Mistral AI.

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