Claude 3 Haiku vs Ministral 8B Instruct Comparison

Comparing Claude 3 Haiku and Ministral 8B Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

4 benchmarks

Claude 3 Haiku outperforms in 3 benchmarks (ARC-C, HumanEval, MMLU), while Ministral 8B Instruct is better at 1 benchmark (MATH).

Claude 3 Haiku shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Ministral 8B Instruct costs less

For input processing, Claude 3 Haiku ($0.25/1M tokens) is 2.5x more expensive than Ministral 8B Instruct ($0.10/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3 Haiku ($1.25/1M tokens) is 12.5x more expensive than Ministral 8B Instruct ($0.10/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Claude 3 Haiku is more expensive than Ministral 8B Instruct.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Claude 3 Haiku

Input tokens$0.25

Output tokens$1.25

Best providerAnthropic

Ministral 8B Instruct

Input tokens$0.10

Output tokens$0.10

Best providerMistral

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Claude 3 Haiku accepts 200,000 input tokens compared to Ministral 8B Instruct's 128,000 tokens. Claude 3 Haiku can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while Ministral 8B Instruct is limited to 128,000 tokens.

Claude 3 Haiku

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

Ministral 8B Instruct

Input128,000 tokens

Output128,000 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Claude 3 Haiku supports multimodal inputs, whereas Ministral 8B Instruct does not.

Claude 3 Haiku can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3 Haiku

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Ministral 8B Instruct

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while Ministral 8B Instruct uses Mistral Research License.

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

Claude 3 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral Research License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Haiku was released on 2024-03-13, while Ministral 8B Instruct was released on 2024-10-16.

Ministral 8B Instruct is 7 months newer than Claude 3 Haiku.

Claude 3 Haiku

Mar 13, 2024

2.0 years ago

Ministral 8B Instruct

Oct 16, 2024

1.4 years ago

7mo newer

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

Provider Availability

Claude 3 Haiku is available from Anthropic, Bedrock, Google. Ministral 8B Instruct is available from Mistral AI. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.