Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4o mini leads with 28.4% higher average benchmark score. Ministral 8B Instruct offers 111.6K more tokens in context window than GPT-4o mini. Ministral 8B Instruct is $0.55 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-4o mini supports multimodal inputs. Overall, GPT-4o mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4o Mini was created as a smaller, more efficient variant of GPT-4o, designed to bring multimodal capabilities to applications requiring faster response times and lower costs. Built to democratize access to advanced vision and text understanding, it enables developers to build sophisticated applications with reduced resource requirements.
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.
3 months newer

GPT-4o mini
OpenAI
2024-07-18

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16
Cost per million tokens (USD)

GPT-4o mini

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

GPT-4o mini

Ministral 8B Instruct
GPT-4o mini
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4o mini
Azure

Ministral 8B Instruct

GPT-4o mini

Ministral 8B Instruct

GPT-4o mini

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI