Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.5 vs Ministral 8B

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.5 OpenAI

37.2

Rank #208 Confirmed

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Ministral 8B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.5 leads 32.5 to 12.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 78.6% for GPT-4.5 and 14.9% for Ministral 8B.
  • Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.5Ministral 8B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index37.228.2
Released2025-02-272024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked4217

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Ministral 8B
LMArena Coding13961202
Aider Polyglot44.9%—
WeirdML39.4%—
LiveBench Coding75.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Ministral 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—11.1%
Cybench17.5%—

Reasoning Ministral 8B leads

GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Ministral 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts14031191
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench34.5%—
ARC-AGI-110.3%—
EnigmaEval3.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning71.1%—
DTBench—45.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis64.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index136.74—
ForecastBench61.7—
LiveBench69%—

Math GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Ministral 8B
LMArena Math14121188
MATH Level 578.6%14.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%—
LiveBench Math69.3%—

Knowledge GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Ministral 8B
GPQA Diamond68.7%27.1%
LMArena Expert13941170
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
Confabulations13.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71), Ministral 8B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Ministral 8B
LMArena Vision1195—
VPCT45%—

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Ministral 8B
LMArena Non-English14131165
LMArena Chinese14211193
LMArena Russian14191195
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1457—
LMArena Japanese1416—
LMArena Korean1392—

Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Ministral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following14041161
LiveBench Instruction Following72.3%—

Long Context GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Ministral 8B
LMArena Longer Query14061212
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Ministral 8B
LMArena Text14171191
LMArena Creative Writing13941175
LMArena Multi-Turn14441166
Short-Story Creative Writing75.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1258—
LiveBench Language61.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.5 better than Ministral 8B?

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4.5 or Ministral 8B better for coding?

GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.2 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.5 and Ministral 8B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.5 has 42 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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