Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude 3 Haiku is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 49 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude 3 Haiku's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 68.7 against 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 27.
Claude 3 Haiku gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B.
Pick Claude 3 Haiku if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Claude 3 Haiku
44
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Claude 3 Haiku
19.3
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Claude 3 Haiku
68.7
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Claude 3 Haiku
59.6
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Claude 3 Haiku
42.8
Ministral 3 8B
28
Claude 3 Haiku
76
Ministral 3 8B
69
Claude 3 Haiku
71.1
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Claude 3 Haiku
62.2
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Claude 3 Haiku is ahead overall, 49 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 27.
Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.8 versus 28. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 19.3 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 62.2 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59.6 versus 36.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 44 versus 28.9. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.7 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 76 versus 69. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.1 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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