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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Ministral 8B

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
Mistral
Ministral 8B
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateOct 15 2025Oct 2024
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
73%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
73.3%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapMinistral 8B shipped 379 days before Claude Haiku 4.5

Which is better: Claude Haiku 4.5 or Ministral 8B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads Ministral 8B on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Ministral 8B shipped 379 days before Claude Haiku 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Ministral 8B is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Haiku 4.5 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Haiku 4.5 released?
Claude Haiku 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Oct 15 2025.
When was Ministral 8B released?
Ministral 8B was released by Mistral on Oct 2024.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Ministral 8B open source?
Ministral 8B is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Claude Haiku 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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