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Ministral 3 8B-25-12 vs GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

Mistral Ministral 3 8B-25-12 vs OpenAI GPT-5.1-Codex-Max — side-by-side specs.

Mistral
Ministral 3 8B-25-12
OpenAI
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Overview
CompanyMistralOpenAI
Release dateDec 2 2025Nov 19 2025
Model type
Open sourceYesNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapGPT-5.1-Codex-Max shipped 13 days before Ministral 3 8B-25-12

Which is better: Ministral 3 8B-25-12 or GPT-5.1-Codex-Max?

Ministral 3 8B-25-12 and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. GPT-5.1-Codex-Max shipped 13 days before Ministral 3 8B-25-12, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Ministral 3 8B-25-12 is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Ministral 3 8B-25-12 released?
Ministral 3 8B-25-12 was released by Mistral on Dec 2 2025.
When was GPT-5.1-Codex-Max released?
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max was released by OpenAI on Nov 19 2025.
Is Ministral 3 8B-25-12 or GPT-5.1-Codex-Max open source?
Ministral 3 8B-25-12 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.

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