# Ministral 8B vs o1-pro

> o1-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 2625× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1-pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/ministral-8b-vs-o1-pro
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1-pro leads 29.3 to 12.5.
- Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $150 / $600 for o1-pro.
- o1-pro accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Ministral 8B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 27.8 | 31.2 |
| Rank | 321 | 264 |
| Context | 128K | 200K |
| Input $/M | $0.10 | $150 |
| Output $/M | $0.10 | $600 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226)
- o1-pro: —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140)
- o1-pro: —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279)
- o1-pro: 20.2 (#223)

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 23.3% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 6.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |

## Math

- Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262)
- o1-pro: —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292)
- o1-pro: 29.3 (#227)

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | — |

## Multilingual

- Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242)
- o1-pro: —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245)
- o1-pro: —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | — |

## Long Context

- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222)
- o1-pro: —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241)
- o1-pro: —

| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Ministral 8B better than o1-pro?

o1-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 2625× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1-pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Ministral 8B or o1-pro?

Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; o1-pro lists at $150 and $600.

### Which has the bigger context window?

o1-pro does, with 200K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and o1-pro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and o1-pro has 3.