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Ministral 3B vs GPT-5.5

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Mistral
Ministral 3B
OpenAI
GPT-5.5
Overview
CompanyMistralOpenAI
Release dateOct 2024Apr 23 2026
Model type
Open sourceYesNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
93.6%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapMinistral 3B shipped 569 days before GPT-5.5

Which is better: Ministral 3B or GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 leads Ministral 3B on 1 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Ministral 3B shipped 569 days before GPT-5.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Ministral 3B is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-5.5 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 3B released?
Ministral 3B was released by Mistral on Oct 2024.
When was GPT-5.5 released?
GPT-5.5 was released by OpenAI on Apr 23 2026.
Is Ministral 3B or GPT-5.5 open source?
Ministral 3B is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. GPT-5.5 is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.

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