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Hy4 preview vs Ministral 8B Instruct

Hy4 preview leads the LLM Stats Score 51.5 to -4.5.

Tencent · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Hy4 preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 51.5 to -4.5, ranking #11 overall.

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

Choose Hy4 preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 51.5 and ranks #11 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Aug 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.

Hy4 preview
Tencent
Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
51.5
#11
-4.5
#335
Reasoning
51.2
#9
-4.5
#327
Coding
40.9
#10
-14.4
#254
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
— / M
$0.10 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.10 / M
Context window
—
128,000

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Hy4 preview
Ministral 8B Instruct
Math
40.2#14
-3.7#306
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

32 reported for Hy4 preview · 11 for Ministral 8B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Hy4 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

762.0B diff

Hy4 preview has 762.0B more parameters than Ministral 8B Instruct, making it 9501.2% larger.

Tencent
Hy4 preview
770.0Bparameters
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
8.0Bparameters
770.0B
Hy4 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).

Tencent
Hy4 preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Wed Sep 02 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

Hy4 preview is licensed under Apache 2.0, while Ministral 8B Instruct uses Mistral Research License.

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

Hy4 preview

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral Research License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Hy4 preview was released on 2026-08-28, while Ministral 8B Instruct was released on 2024-10-16.

Hy4 preview is 23 months newer than Ministral 8B Instruct.

Hy4 preview

Aug 28, 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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FAQ

Common questions about Hy4 preview vs Ministral 8B Instruct.

Which is better, Hy4 preview or Ministral 8B Instruct?

Hy4 preview leads the LLM Stats Score 51.5 to -4.5. Hy4 preview is made by Tencent 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 Hy4 preview compare to Ministral 8B Instruct in benchmarks?

Hy4 preview scores GPQA: 92.3%, Terminal-Bench 2.1: 85.4%, WideSearch: 83.9%, MCP Atlas: 83.7%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 82.9%. 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 Hy4 preview and Ministral 8B Instruct?

Hy4 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 Hy4 preview and Ministral 8B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (51.5 vs -4.5), licensing (Apache 2.0 vs Mistral Research License). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Hy4 preview and Ministral 8B Instruct?

Hy4 preview is developed by Tencent and Ministral 8B Instruct is developed by Mistral AI.

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