Model comparison
Ministral 8B vs o1-mini
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1-mini leads 34.9 to 12.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 14.9% for Ministral 8B and 89.2% for o1-mini.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Ministral 8B | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 28.2 | 34.0 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | 1362 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use o1-mini leads
Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |
| Cybench | — | 10% |
Reasoning Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1333 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.82 |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |
Math o1-mini leads
Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | 89.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge o1-mini leads
Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | 62.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | 1316 |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
Multilingual o1-mini leads
Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | 1283 |
| LMArena French | — | 1293 |
| LMArena German | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1223 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1303 |
Instruction Following o1-mini leads
Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |
Long Context o1-mini leads
Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | 1320 |
Writing & Preference o1-mini leads
Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 8B better than o1-mini?
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Ministral 8B or o1-mini better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (35.0 vs 35.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and o1-mini share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.