Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o4-mini offers 44.0K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $5.30 cheaper per million tokens. o4-mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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
o4-mini was created as part of the next generation of OpenAI's reasoning models, designed to continue advancing the balance between analytical capability and operational efficiency. Built to bring cutting-edge reasoning techniques to applications requiring quick turnaround, it represents the evolution of compact reasoning-focused models.
6 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

o4-mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Ministral 8B Instruct

o4-mini
Context window and performance specifications
o4-mini
2024-05-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI

o4-mini

Ministral 8B Instruct

o4-mini

Ministral 8B Instruct

o4-mini
OpenAI