GPT-5.2 vs Ministral 3 8B 2512
GPT-5.2 leads Ministral 3 8B 2512 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 30.4 to 5.5, and Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs 93.3x less per output token ($0.15 vs $14.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 5 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-5.2 or Ministral 3 8B 2512: which to pick
Only GPT-5.2 has a coding score, 55.9 on the Vibe Coding Index; Ministral 3 8B 2512 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Ministral 3 8B 2512 for output tokens 93.3x cheaper ($0.15 vs $14.00 per million).
- Shared results
- 5
- GPT-5.2 only
- 109
- Ministral 3 8B 2512 only
- 2
- Like-for-like categories
- 2 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only GPT-5.2 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2 leads, 30.4 against 5.5.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Ministral 3 8B 2512 has a AA Agentic Index result, 0.6.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-5.2 has a GPQA Diamond result, 91.7%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-5.2 has a AIME result, 96.9%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-5.2 has a MMLU Pro result, 86.2%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2 leads, 1195 against 1065.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2 takes 400K tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Ministral 3 8B 2512
GPT-5.2 $0.0088, Ministral 3 8B 2512 $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-5.2 has the number, $1.91.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-5.2 55.9 from 3 benchmarks, Ministral 3 8B 2512 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Intelligence, 24.9 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: game dev: GPT-5.2 1195 against Ministral 3 8B 2512 990, 25.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-5.2 $14.00 against Ministral 3 8B 2512 $0.15 per million output tokens, 93.3x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-5.2 takes 400K tokens, Ministral 3 8B 2512 262K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | GPT-5.2 | Bars | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 4 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 5 | 0 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 66.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1417 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 9.7 | Only Ministral 3 8B 2512 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 85.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 75.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 53.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 89.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 47.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 64.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 27.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| WeirdML | 72.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1293.5 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1442 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1434 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1427 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 30.4 | 5.5 | GPT-5.2 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 153.7 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 0.6 | Only Ministral 3 8B 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1086 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1043 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1093 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1059 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1142 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 84.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| METR time horizons | 75.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 2.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| GDPval | 49.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 41.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $3,591 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | 55.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index18 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 91.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 86.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 90.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 37.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 91.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 86.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 52.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| SimpleBench | 45.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 48.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 23.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| EBR-bench | 23.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| VPCT | 84.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1428 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1445 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1431 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1265 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1276 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 96.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 94.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| AA Math Index | 99.0 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 99.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 96.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 67.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 31.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| ProofBench | 15.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1440 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1442 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 86.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 82.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 66.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 65.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 75.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 67.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 94.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 49.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 37.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1425 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1425 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1427 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1414 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 48.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1195 | 1065 | GPT-5.2 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1190 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1195 | 990 | GPT-5.2 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1202 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1079 | 1031 | GPT-5.2 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1170 | 1053 | GPT-5.2 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1139 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1152 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index34 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 49.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 84.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| IFBench | 75.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| DTBench | 90.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMCA | 43.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| CL-bench | 18.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 38.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1416 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1409 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1376 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1246 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1422 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1405 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1447 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1444 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1420 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1374 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1454 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1413 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1415 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1426 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1419 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1413 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1392 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1378 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1243 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1305 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1257 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1227 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1267 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1232 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1225 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1405 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.2 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-5.2 | Mistral Ministral 3 8B 2512 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | December 10, 2025 | December 2, 2025 |
| Context window | 400K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.75 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $14.00 | $0.15 |
| Coding index | 55.9 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.91 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-5.2 better than Ministral 3 8B 2512 for coding?
Only GPT-5.2 has a coding score, 55.9 on the Vibe Coding Index; Ministral 3 8B 2512 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Ministral 3 8B 2512 for output tokens 93.3x cheaper ($0.15 vs $14.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.2 or Ministral 3 8B 2512?
GPT-5.2 costs $1.75 per million input tokens and $14.00 per million output tokens; Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs $0.15 and $0.15. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5.2 only.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5.2 or Ministral 3 8B 2512?
GPT-5.2, with 400K tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-5.2 vs Ministral 3 8B 2512 comparison based on?
5 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-5.2's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Ministral 3 8B 2512's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.