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Model comparison

GPT-6 Sol vs Ministral 8B

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 27× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

GPT-6 Sol OpenAI

61.8

Rank #12 Confirmed

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-6 Sol scores higher in 9 categories and Ministral 8B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-6 Sol leads 87.2 to 25.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.3% for GPT-6 Sol and 27.1% for Ministral 8B.
  • Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for GPT-6 Sol.
  • GPT-6 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index61.828.2
Released2026-09-222024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output128K262K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.15
Results tracked4517

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 60.1 (#11), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
LMArena Coding14471202
DeepSWE68.8%—
FrontierCode49.3%—
LMArena WebDev1688—
SciCode57.6%—
ALE-Bench2,462—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 37.2 (#36), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
APEX-Agents54.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—11.1%
GDP.pdf26.4%—
Vending-Bench 214,428—

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 74.0 (#9), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts14181191
DTBench97.3%45.7%
ARC-AGI-289.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)90.1%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt30.9%—
EBR-Bench53.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
LMCA59.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.72—

Math GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 87.2 (#7), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
LMArena Math14021188
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)89.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 490%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench83%—
MATH Level 5—14.9%

Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 64.8 (#15), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
GPQA Diamond94.3%27.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.5%7.4%
LMArena Expert14391170
SimpleQA Verified60.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#10), Ministral 8B: —

BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
LMArena Vision1245—
Blueprint-Bench 236.9%—
Furniture Assembly58.3%—

Multilingual GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 50.5 (#118), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
LMArena Non-English13851165
LMArena Chinese14051193
LMArena Russian14011195
LMArena French1410—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1385—
LMArena Korean1341—
LMArena Spanish1384—

Instruction Following GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 74.5 (#94), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following14121161

Long Context GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 43.1 (#108), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
LMArena Longer Query14111212

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 71.9 (#18), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMinistral 8B
LMArena Text13951191
LMArena Creative Writing13781175
LMArena Multi-Turn14121166
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2125—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-6 Sol better than Ministral 8B?

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 27× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-6 Sol or Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; GPT-6 Sol lists at $2 and $10.

Is GPT-6 Sol or Ministral 8B better for coding?

GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.1 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-6 Sol and Ministral 8B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-6 Sol has 45 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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