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Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 49.9 to 7.3.

Anthropic · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 49.9 to 7.3, ranking #20 overall.

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

Choose Claude Haiku 5.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 49.9 and ranks #20 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2026

Choose Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic
Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
49.9
#20
7.3
#310
Reasoning
47.5
#25
8.9
#288
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$0.10 / M
— / M
Output price
$0.50 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Individual benchmarks

36 reported for Claude Haiku 5.5 · 4 for Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)

No common benchmarks found

Claude Haiku 5.5 and Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)don'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

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Haiku 5.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Haiku 5.5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Haiku 5.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Mistral AI
Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Thu Oct 22 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude Haiku 5.5 and Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Haiku 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) uses Apache 2.0.

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

Claude Haiku 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Haiku 5.5 was released on 2026-10-07, while Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) was released on 2025-12-04.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 10 months newer than Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512).

Claude Haiku 5.5

Oct 7, 2026

1 weeks ago

10mo newer
Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)

Dec 4, 2025

10 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Haiku 5.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)'s cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Claude Haiku 5.5's training data extends to 2026-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)'s cutoff date.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Jun 2026

Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)

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Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Haiku 5.5 and Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Haiku 5.5
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Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512).

Which is better, Claude Haiku 5.5 or Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 49.9 to 7.3. Claude Haiku 5.5 is made by Anthropic and Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) 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 Claude Haiku 5.5 compare to Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) in benchmarks?

Claude Haiku 5.5 scores Global-MMLU: 87.8%, MILU: 87.6%, BenchCAD (with Python tool): 87.0%, Chartography: 86.2%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 83.7%. Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) scores MATH: 87.6%, Wild Bench: 66.8%, Arena Hard: 50.9%, MM-MT-Bench: 8.1%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Haiku 5.5 and Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)?

Claude Haiku 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude Haiku 5.5 and Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (49.9 vs 7.3), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Haiku 5.5 and Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512)?

Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) is developed by Mistral AI.

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