Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Ministral 8B Instruct offers 120.0K more tokens in context window than Grok-3 Mini. Ministral 8B Instruct is $0.60 cheaper per million tokens. Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3 Mini was developed as an efficient version of Grok 3, designed to bring next-generation capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide strong performance with practical efficiency, it extends Grok 3's innovations to broader application scenarios.
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

Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Grok-3 Mini

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-3 Mini
xAI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Grok-3 Mini

Ministral 8B Instruct

Grok-3 Mini

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI