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GPT-4o minivsMinistral 3 8B
Ministral 3 8B leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. Ministral 3 8B is 2.5x cheaper per token. Ministral 3 8B has the larger context window (256K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 1
Ministral 3 8B leads
Cheaper per token
Ministral 3 8B
2.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Ministral 3 8B
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
94.2446% · 100%
OpenAI · Mistral AI
GPT-4o mini
OpenAI · released 2024-07-18
textvision
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-02
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 5 only GPT-4o mini · 2 only Ministral 3 8B| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Ministral 3 8B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 40.2% ↗ | 66.8% ↗ | -26.6 pt | Ministral 3 8B |
| Only GPT-4o mini reports · 5 | ||||
| MMLU | 82% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2024 | 8.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 0.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 6.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 8.3% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Ministral 3 8B reports · 2 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 78.7% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | not reported | 61.6% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-4o mini minus Ministral 3 8B in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | GPT-4o mini | Ministral 3 8B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128K tokens | 256K tokens | Ministral 3 8B |
| Max output | 16K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.15 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Tie |
| Output price / 1M | $0.6 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.075 ↗ | $0.015 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.75 | $0.3 | Ministral 3 8B |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2024-07-18 | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 7 | 3 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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