Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.5 leads with 39.5% higher average benchmark score. Ministral 8B Instruct offers 123.9K more tokens in context window than GPT-4.5. Ministral 8B Instruct is $224.80 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, GPT-4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4.5 was developed as an intermediate advancement between GPT-4 and GPT-5, designed to incorporate incremental improvements in reasoning, factuality, and instruction-following. Built to bridge generational capabilities while maintaining compatibility with existing applications, it represents a refinement of the GPT-4 architecture with enhanced performance characteristics.
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.
4 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

GPT-4.5
OpenAI
2025-02-27
Cost per million tokens (USD)

GPT-4.5

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

GPT-4.5

Ministral 8B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4.5
OpenAI

Ministral 8B Instruct

GPT-4.5

Ministral 8B Instruct

GPT-4.5

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI