Model comparison

GLM-4.5V vs Ministral 3B

GLM-4.5V is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 22× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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GLM-4.5V Z.ai (Zhipu)

39.2

Rank #158 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-4.5V leads 36.8 to 10.4.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $1.80 for GLM-4.5V.
  • Ministral 3B accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 64K.

Side by side

GLM-4.5V and Ministral 3B specifications
GLM-4.5VMinistral 3B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index39.225.6
Released2025-08-112024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window64K128K
Max output16K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.60$0.04
Output $ / M tokens$1.80$0.04
Results tracked156

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: 38.9 (#152), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMinistral 3B
LMArena Coding1347—

Reasoning GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 26.5 (#118), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMinistral 3B
Kagi LLM Benchmark59.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1335—
DTBench—51.7%
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.08

Math GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 34.7 (#157), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMinistral 3B
LMArena Math1353—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge GLM-4.5V leads

GLM-4.5V: 36.8 (#155), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1353—

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: 33.6 (#86), Ministral 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1154—

Multilingual Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: 44.9 (#172), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1304—
LMArena Chinese1338—
LMArena Russian1299—
LMArena Spanish1335—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: 69.4 (#170), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1311—

Long Context Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: 39.6 (#166), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1305—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GLM-4.5V: 52.7 (#162), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.5VMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1333—
LMArena Creative Writing1295—
LMArena Multi-Turn1333—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.5V better than Ministral 3B?

GLM-4.5V is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 22× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5V or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5V lists at $0.60 and $1.80.

Which has the bigger context window?

Ministral 3B does, with 128K tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5V and Ministral 3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5V has 15 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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