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Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

MMeta: Llama 3.3 70B Instructmeta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instructVSMMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512mistralai/ministral-8b-2512

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct wins on more metrics (5 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMeta: Llama 3.3 70B InstructMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512
Intelligence Index14.514.8✓
Coding Index10.7✓10.0
GPQA Diamond50%✓47%
Design Arena Elo—1112✓
Speed (tokens/sec)110✓22
Latency227ms✓254ms
Input price /M$0.100✓$0.150
Output price /M$0.320$0.150✓
Context window131K262K✓
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