ministral-8b-latest vs sonar-pro

Capability for the money

sonar-pro is 40.0× dearer for 10.7 points on hard reasoning (GPQA Diamond) — worth it only if that is your bottleneck.

1. Coding

   writing and fixing code

   LiveCodeBench
   ministral-8b-latest30.3%

   sonar-pro27.5%

   ministral-8b-latest +2.8

2. Hard reasoning

   graduate-level science and multi-step analysis

   GPQA Diamond
   ministral-8b-latest47.1%

   sonar-pro57.8%

   sonar-pro +10.7

Averaged over the benchmarks both models sat, ministral-8b-latest returns 258.0 points of pass rate per dollar of blended price against 7.1 — the ratio that decides whether the dearer model earns its rate.

Each figure is a pass rate: the share of that test set the model answered correctly, measured by a third party rather than self-reported by the lab. Rows are different tests of different difficulty, so compare a model against the other model, not one row against the next. No published following instructions or tool use score for one of these models, so those lenses are omitted. And a benchmark is not your workload — it narrows the shortlist, it does not pick for you.