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Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Ministral 3 8B-25-12

Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Mistral
Ministral 3 8B-25-12
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateOct 22 2024Dec 2 2025
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
50%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
40.6%
Science
GPQA Diamond
41.6%
Timeline
Release gapClaude 3.5 Haiku shipped 406 days before Ministral 3 8B-25-12

Which is better: Claude 3.5 Haiku or Ministral 3 8B-25-12?

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Ministral 3 8B-25-12 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 3.5 Haiku shipped 406 days before Ministral 3 8B-25-12, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude 3.5 Haiku is proprietary, while Ministral 3 8B-25-12 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3.5 Haiku and Ministral 3 8B-25-12 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released by Anthropic on Oct 22 2024.

Ministral 3 8B-25-12 was released by Mistral on Dec 2 2025.

Claude 3.5 Haiku is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Ministral 3 8B-25-12 is an open weight model released by Mistral.

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