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GPT-3.5 Turbo vs Ministral 8B Instruct
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-3.5 Turbo leads with 8.9% higher average benchmark score. Ministral 8B Instruct offers 235.5K more tokens in context window than GPT-3.5 Turbo. Ministral 8B Instruct is $1.80 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, GPT-3.5 Turbo is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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OpenAI
GPT-3.5 Turbo was developed as an optimized version of GPT-3.5, designed to provide a balance of capability and efficiency for conversational and completion tasks. Built to serve as a cost-effective option for applications requiring reliable language understanding and generation, it became widely adopted for chatbots, content generation, and general-purpose AI assistance.
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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.
1 year newer
GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI
2023-03-21
Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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GPT-3.5 Turbo
Input:$0.50
Output:$1.50
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Ministral 8B Instruct
Input:$0.10
Output:$0.10($1.80 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks
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GPT-3.5 Turbo
Average Score:60.3%(+8.9%)
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Ministral 8B Instruct
Average Score:51.4%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
GPT-3.5 Turbo
2021-09-30
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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GPT-3.5 Turbo
2 providers
Azure
Throughput: 90 tok/s
Latency: 0.8ms
OpenAI
Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
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GPT-3.5 Turbo
Avg Score:60.3%(+8.9%)
Providers:2
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Ministral 8B Instruct
Avg Score:51.4%
Providers:1