Ministral 8B vs o4-mini
Mistral Ministral 8B | OpenAI o4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | OpenAI |
| Release date | Oct 2024 | Apr 16 2025 |
| Access | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 8% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Ministral 8B shipped 197 days before o4-mini | |
Which is better: Ministral 8B or o4-mini?
Ministral 8B and o4-mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Ministral 8B shipped 197 days before o4-mini, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Ministral 8B is open weight, while o4-mini is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Ministral 8B and o4-mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Ministral 8B was released by Mistral on Oct 2024.
o4-mini was released by OpenAI on Apr 16 2025.
Ministral 8B is an open weight model released by Mistral. o4-mini is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.
Other comparisons
Ministral 8B vs Claude Sonnet 5o4-mini vs Claude Sonnet 5Ministral 8B vs Gemini Omnio4-mini vs Gemini OmniMinistral 8B vs Muse Spark 1.1o4-mini vs Muse Spark 1.1Ministral 8B vs Grok 4.5o4-mini vs Grok 4.5Ministral 8B vs DeepSeek-V4-Proo4-mini vs DeepSeek-V4-ProMinistral 8B vs Kimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini vs Kimi K2.7 Code