Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of the 3.1 base model, designed to deliver improved instruction-following with refinements from the updated architecture. Built to serve diverse applications with enhanced reliability, it advances the Small model line's capabilities.
8 months newer

GPT-4o mini
OpenAI
2024-07-18

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-03-17
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

GPT-4o mini

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
GPT-4o mini
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4o mini
Azure

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

GPT-4o mini

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

GPT-4o mini

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct