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Ministral 3 8B-25-12 vs GPT-4o

Mistral
Ministral 3 8B-25-12
OpenAI
GPT-4o
Overview
CompanyMistralOpenAI
Release dateDec 2 2025May 13 2024
AccessOpen WeightProprietary
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
12%
Timeline
Release gapGPT-4o shipped 568 days before Ministral 3 8B-25-12

Which is better: Ministral 3 8B-25-12 or GPT-4o?

Ministral 3 8B-25-12 and GPT-4o don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. GPT-4o shipped 568 days before Ministral 3 8B-25-12, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Ministral 3 8B-25-12 is open weight, while GPT-4o is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Ministral 3 8B-25-12 and GPT-4o don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Ministral 3 8B-25-12 was released by Mistral on Dec 2 2025.

GPT-4o was released by OpenAI on May 13 2024.

Ministral 3 8B-25-12 is an open weight model released by Mistral. GPT-4o is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.

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