Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o3-mini leads with 32.6% higher average benchmark score. o3-mini offers 44.0K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $5.30 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, o3-mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
OpenAI
o3-mini was created as an efficient variant of the o3 reasoning model, designed to provide advanced thinking capabilities with reduced computational requirements. Built to make next-generation reasoning accessible to a broader range of applications, it balances analytical depth with practical speed and cost considerations.
3 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

o3-mini
OpenAI
2025-01-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Ministral 8B Instruct

o3-mini
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Ministral 8B Instruct

o3-mini
o3-mini
2023-09-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI

o3-mini

Ministral 8B Instruct

o3-mini

Ministral 8B Instruct

o3-mini
Azure
OpenAI