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Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Ministral 3B

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 7.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1 mini's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 1 category and Ministral 3B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 87.3% for GPT-4.1 mini and 14.4% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.60 for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index33.626.2
Released2025-04-142024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output33K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$0.10
Results tracked476

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding1367—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—

Reasoning Ministral 3B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
DTBench68.8%51.7%
LMCA21.1%5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01118.1
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1349—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—

Math Ministral 3B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
MATH Level 587.3%14.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—
LMArena Math1343—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond65.8%25.3%
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
LMArena Expert1338—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena Chinese1329—
LMArena French1358—
LMArena German1351—
LMArena Japanese1290—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Russian1324—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
IFEval90.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1333—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1340—
LMArena Creative Writing1300—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1354—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Ministral 3B?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 7.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1 mini's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 mini lists at $0.40 and $1.60.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Ministral 3B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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