Model Comparison

Grok-1.5 vs Ministral 8B Instruct

Grok-1.5 shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

3 benchmarks

Grok-1.5 outperforms in 2 benchmarks (HumanEval, MMLU), while Ministral 8B Instruct is better at 1 benchmark (MATH).

Grok-1.5 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

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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xAI
Grok-1.5
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Mistral AI
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

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

xAI
Grok-1.5
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Grok-1.5 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.

Grok-1.5

Proprietary

Closed source

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral Research License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Grok-1.5 was released on 2024-03-28, while Ministral 8B Instruct was released on 2024-10-16.

Ministral 8B Instruct is 7 months newer than Grok-1.5.

Grok-1.5

Mar 28, 2024

2.0 years ago

Ministral 8B Instruct

Oct 16, 2024

1.5 years ago

6mo 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

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

xAI
Higher HumanEval score (74.1% vs 34.8%)
Higher MMLU score (81.3% vs 65.0%)
Mistral AI
Larger context window (128,000 tokens)
Has open weights
Higher MATH score (54.5% vs 50.6%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
xAI
Grok-1.5
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Grok-1.5 vs Ministral 8B Instruct

Grok-1.5 shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks. Grok-1.5 is made by xAI and Ministral 8B Instruct is made by Mistral AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Grok-1.5 scores GSM8k: 90.0%, DocVQA: 85.6%, MMLU: 81.3%, HumanEval: 74.1%, MMMU: 53.6%. Ministral 8B Instruct scores MT-Bench: 83.0%, Winogrande: 75.3%, ARC-C: 71.9%, Arena Hard: 70.9%, MBPP pass@1: 70.0%.
Grok-1.5 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.
Key differences include licensing (Proprietary vs Mistral Research License). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Grok-1.5 is developed by xAI and Ministral 8B Instruct is developed by Mistral AI.