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Ministral 8B vs GPT-4o mini

Mistral Ministral 8B vs OpenAI GPT-4o mini — side-by-side specs.

Mistral
Ministral 8B
OpenAI
GPT-4o mini
Overview
CompanyMistralOpenAI
Release dateOct 2024Jul 18 2024
Model type
Open sourceYesNo
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapGPT-4o mini shipped 75 days before Ministral 8B

Which is better: Ministral 8B or GPT-4o mini?

Ministral 8B and GPT-4o mini do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. GPT-4o mini shipped 75 days before Ministral 8B, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Ministral 8B is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-4o mini 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 8B released?
Ministral 8B was released by Mistral on Oct 2024.
When was GPT-4o mini released?
GPT-4o mini was released by OpenAI on Jul 18 2024.
Is Ministral 8B or GPT-4o mini open source?
Ministral 8B is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. GPT-4o mini is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.

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