GPT-5.4 Mini vs Ministral 3 8B 2512
GPT-5.4 Mini leads Ministral 3 8B 2512 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 24.1 to 5.5, and Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs 30.0x less per output token ($0.15 vs $4.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 3 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-5.4 Mini or Ministral 3 8B 2512: which to pick
Only GPT-5.4 Mini has a coding score, 35.8 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 30.0x cheaper ($0.15 vs $4.50 per million).
- Shared results
- 3
- GPT-5.4 Mini only
- 86
- Ministral 3 8B 2512 only
- 4
- Like-for-like categories
- 3 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-5.4 Mini has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-5.4 Mini
GPT-5.4 Mini leads, 24.1 against 5.5.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
GPT-5.4 Mini
GPT-5.4 Mini leads, 17.9 against 0.6.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-5.4 Mini has a GPQA Diamond result, 83.1%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-5.4 Mini has a AIME result, 95.6%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-5.4 Mini has a MMLU Pro result, 84.5%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Ministral 3 8B 2512 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1065.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5.4 Mini
GPT-5.4 Mini takes 400K tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Ministral 3 8B 2512
GPT-5.4 Mini $0.0030, Ministral 3 8B 2512 $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-5.4 Mini has the number, $0.70.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-5.4 Mini 35.8 from 5 benchmarks, Ministral 3 8B 2512 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 46.4 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- AA Coding Index: GPT-5.4 Mini 56.1 against Ministral 3 8B 2512 9.7, 46.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-5.4 Mini $4.50 against Ministral 3 8B 2512 $0.15 per million output tokens, 30.0x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-5.4 Mini 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-5.4 Mini | Bars | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 3 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Mini | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1397 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| AA Coding Index | 56.1 | 9.7 | GPT-5.4 Mini |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 81.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 73.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 2.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 48.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 12.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 54.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| SciCode | 52.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 52.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| FrontierCode | 27.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| WeirdML | 60.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1188.6 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1438 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1436 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1386 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1419 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Mini | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 24.1 | 5.5 | GPT-5.4 Mini |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 148.7 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Mini | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 17.9 | 0.6 | GPT-5.4 Mini |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 45.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 8.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 12.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 45.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 83.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 36.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Mini | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 83.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 79.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 28.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 86.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI | 63.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 18.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Chess puzzles | 23.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 11.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1424 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1435 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1420 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1266 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1285 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Mini | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 95.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 88.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 51.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 9.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| ProofBench | 21.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1418 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1429 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Mini | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 84.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 51.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 60.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 71.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 63.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 29.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1417 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1395 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1414 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1418 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Mini | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1065 | Only Ministral 3 8B 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 990 | Only Ministral 3 8B 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1031 | Only Ministral 3 8B 2512 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1052 | Only Ministral 3 8B 2512 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Mini | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 50.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 54.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| IFBench | 73.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 77.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| DTBench | 80.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMCA | 40.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text | 1412 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1405 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1370 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1245 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1412 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1405 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1446 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1408 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1375 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1370 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1441 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1405 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1417 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1415 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1429 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1408 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1393 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1373 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1244 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1286 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1253 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1235 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1218 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1222 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 Mini | 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-5.4 Mini | Mistral Ministral 3 8B 2512 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | March 17, 2026 | December 2, 2025 |
| Context window | 400K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.75 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.50 | $0.15 |
| Coding index | 35.8 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.70 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-5.4 Mini better than Ministral 3 8B 2512 for coding?
Only GPT-5.4 Mini has a coding score, 35.8 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 30.0x cheaper ($0.15 vs $4.50 per million).
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 Mini or Ministral 3 8B 2512?
GPT-5.4 Mini costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $4.50 per million output tokens; Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs $0.15 and $0.15. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5.4 Mini only.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5.4 Mini or Ministral 3 8B 2512?
GPT-5.4 Mini, with 400K tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-5.4 Mini vs Ministral 3 8B 2512 comparison based on?
3 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-5.4 Mini's coding index rests on 5 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.