Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Ministral 8B Instruct offers 59.4K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.6. Ministral 8B Instruct is $2.40 cheaper per million tokens. GLM-4.6 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.6 was introduced as an enhanced iteration of the GLM-4 series, designed to provide improved capabilities in bilingual language understanding and generation. Built to incorporate refinements to the GLM architecture, it represents continued advancement in Zhipu AI's model development.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B was developed as a compact yet capable model from Mistral AI, designed to provide strong instruction-following with just 8 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring efficient deployment while maintaining reliable performance, it represents Mistral's smallest production-ready offering.
11 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16
GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
2025-09-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM-4.6

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM-4.6
DeepInfra
ZeroEval

Ministral 8B Instruct
GLM-4.6

Ministral 8B Instruct
GLM-4.6

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI