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GPT-5.1vsMinistral 3 8B
GPT-5.1 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Ministral 3 8B is 37.5x cheaper per token. GPT-5.1 has the larger context window (400K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
GPT-5.1 leads
Cheaper per token
Ministral 3 8B
37.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5.1
400K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
94.7368% · 100%
OpenAI · Mistral AI
GPT-5.1
OpenAI · released 2025-11-13
textvision
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-02
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 4 only GPT-5.1 · 1 only Ministral 3 8B| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Ministral 3 8B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 87.6% ↗epoch | 66.8% ↗ | +20.8 pt | GPT-5.1 |
| AIME 2025 | 94.2% ↗matharena ⚠ | 78.7% ↗ | +15.5 pt | GPT-5.1 |
| Only GPT-5.1 reports · 4 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1422.6 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 88.6% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 48% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 68% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Ministral 3 8B reports · 1 | ||||
| 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-5.1 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-5.1 | Ministral 3 8B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 400K tokens | 256K tokens | GPT-5.1 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $1.25 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.125 ↗ | $0.015 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $11.25 | $0.3 | Ministral 3 8B |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-11-13 | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 6 | 3 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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