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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Ministral 8B

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5
Mistral
Ministral 8B
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateNov 24 2025Oct 2024
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
90%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
80.9%
Science
GPQA Diamond
87%
Timeline
Release gapMinistral 8B shipped 419 days before Claude Opus 4.5

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

Claude Opus 4.5 and Ministral 8B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Ministral 8B shipped 419 days before Claude Opus 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Opus 4.5 is proprietary, while Ministral 8B is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Opus 4.5 and Ministral 8B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Opus 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Nov 24 2025.

Ministral 8B was released by Mistral on Oct 2024.

Claude Opus 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Ministral 8B is an open weight model released by Mistral.

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