Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 17, 2026noindex (thin pair)
In this head-to-head showdown, Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 is more budget-friendly at $0.15/1M per 1M output tokens. Review the complete breakdown below to determine which model best fits your performance and budget requirements.
3 direct benchmark disciplines evaluated across capability, speed, and cost
Anthropic cheap/fast Claude SKU. Official Claude Platform list price $1/$5 per 1M tokens (Anthropic Haiku page).
Auto-discovered from OpenRouter (mistralai/ministral-8b-2512). Preview until a second source matches.
Currently comparing Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512. Alternative family tiers available.
Single model data
No latency data
$0.15 / 1M output
Relative percentile scores computed across all active models in the benchmark catalog.
Comparing top Western standard models with China's leading frontier rival across 6 skill dimensions. Tap any spoke or dot to inspect.
Category wins across reasoning intelligence, generation speed, and token cost.
Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy
Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness
Cost per million tokens and max context window length
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Advantage Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preference Elo | — | — | |
| Coding Elo | — | — | |
| LiveBench | — | — | |
| SWE-bench | — | — | |
| GPQA Diamond | — | — | |
| Time to first token | — | — | |
| Output speed | 175 tok/s | — | — |
| Input price | $0.15/1M | +$0.85/1M | |
| Output price | $0.15/1M | +$4.85/1M | |
| Context window | +62k |
Simulate monthly production API costs in USD (US Dollar).
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 is estimated to save $102.50/month ($1,230/year).
Need SWE-bench on both sides.
Lower output list price ($0.15/1M).
Need TTFT on both sides.
Larger window (262k).
Claude Haiku 4.5 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.
| Target Workload | Recommended Pick | Evaluation Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Repo / coding agents | insufficient data | Need SWE-bench on both sides. |
| High-volume chat | Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Lower output list price ($0.15/1M). |
| Voice / low-latency UI | insufficient data | Need TTFT on both sides. |
| Long-document RAG | Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Larger window (262k). |
| Screenshots / vision | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog. |
$1/$5 hosted Claude vs a cheap long-context open sibling. The alternative-to-Sonnet pair that is honest.
Huge window, cheap hosted lists. The Haiku alternative that is actually open-weight.
Official Anthropic list $1/$5. This is the SKU behind “cheapest Claude alternative” that is still Claude.
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