Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4 Fast offers 1.8M more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Grok 4 Fast supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 4 Fast is a multimodal language model developed by xAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.0% across 7 benchmarks. It excels particularly in SimpleQA (95.0%), HMMT 2025 (93.3%), AIME 2025 (92.0%). With a 2.0M token context window, it can handle extensive documents and complex multi-turn conversations. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
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.
10 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Grok 4 Fast
xAI
2025-08-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Grok 4 Fast

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok 4 Fast
xAI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Grok 4 Fast

Ministral 8B Instruct

Grok 4 Fast

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI