Ministral 3B and GPT-5-Codex-Mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Ministral 3B shipped 402 days before GPT-5-Codex-Mini, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Ministral 3B is open weight, while GPT-5-Codex-Mini is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Ministral 3B and GPT-5-Codex-Mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.