Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT OSS 120B leads with 25.0% higher average benchmark score. GPT OSS 120B offers 6.1K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. GPT OSS 120B is available on 5 providers. Overall, GPT OSS 120B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-OSS 120B was developed as an open-source model release from OpenAI, designed to provide the research and developer community with access to a capable language model. Built with 120 billion parameters, it enables experimentation, fine-tuning, and deployment in contexts where open-source licensing and transparency are valued.
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.
9 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

GPT OSS 120B
OpenAI
2025-08-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)

GPT OSS 120B

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

GPT OSS 120B

Ministral 8B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT OSS 120B
DeepInfra
Groq
Novita
OpenAI
ZeroEval

GPT OSS 120B

Ministral 8B Instruct

GPT OSS 120B

Ministral 8B Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI