Model Comparison

Ministral 8B Instruct vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

5 benchmarks

Ministral 8B Instruct outperforms in 1 benchmarks (ARC-C), while Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is better at 4 benchmarks (HumanEval, MATH, MMLU, Winogrande).

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct significantly outperforms across most 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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Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
Input tokens$0.10
Output tokens$0.10
Best providerMistral
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

24.5B diff

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 24.5B more parameters than Ministral 8B Instruct, making it 305.2% larger.

Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
8.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
32.5Bparameters
8.0B
Ministral 8B Instruct
32.5B
Qwen2.5 32B 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).

Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Ministral 8B Instruct is licensed under Mistral Research License, while Qwen2.5 32B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

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

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral Research License

Open weights

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Ministral 8B Instruct was released on 2024-10-16, while Qwen2.5 32B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19.

Ministral 8B Instruct is 1 month newer than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.

Ministral 8B Instruct

Oct 16, 2024

1.5 years ago

3w newer
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

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Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Mistral AI
Larger context window (128,000 tokens)
Higher ARC-C score (71.9% vs 70.4%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Higher HumanEval score (88.4% vs 34.8%)
Higher MATH score (83.1% vs 54.5%)
Higher MMLU score (83.3% vs 65.0%)
Higher Winogrande score (82.0% vs 75.3%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Ministral 8B Instruct vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Ministral 8B Instruct is made by Mistral AI and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Ministral 8B Instruct scores MT-Bench: 83.0%, Winogrande: 75.3%, ARC-C: 71.9%, Arena Hard: 70.9%, MBPP pass@1: 70.0%. Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores GSM8k: 95.9%, HumanEval: 88.4%, HellaSwag: 85.2%, BBH: 84.5%, MBPP: 84.0%.
Ministral 8B Instruct supports 128K tokens and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include licensing (Mistral Research License vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Ministral 8B Instruct is developed by Mistral AI and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.