Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 17, 2026noindex (thin pair)

Ernie 4.5 Turbo vs Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 benchmark

Name: Ernie 4.5 Turbo vs Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 AI benchmark comparison
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This page compares Ernie 4.5 Turbo (Baidu) and Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (Mistral) using the latest snapshots we have as of Aug 17, 2026. Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 wins on output price at $0.15/1M. Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 has the larger context window (262k tokens). Every cell below is a dated snapshot from a named public source — we do not invent missing scores, and we do not run SWE-bench ourselves.

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Baidu

Ernie 4.5 Turbo

Baidu current multimodal enterprise foundation model with broad Chinese knowledge.

Elo 1,450$1.2/1M out

Mistral

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

Auto-discovered from OpenRouter (mistralai/ministral-8b-2512). Preview until a second source matches.

$0.15/1M out

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Category wins across intelligence, speed, and pricing efficiency.

Ernie 4.5 Turbo (7)vsMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (3)

Ernie 4.5 Turbo: 7W (70%)Overall: Ernie 4.5 TurboMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512: 3W (30%)

← Ernie 4.5 TurboMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 →

Ernie 4.5 Turbo (5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy

Preference Elo

1,450vs—

Coding Elo

1,435vs—

SWE-bench

57%vs—

LiveBench

61%vs—

GPQA Diamond

74.5%vs—

Ernie 4.5 Turbo: 5WMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512: 0W

Ernie 4.5 Turbo (2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Output speed

95 tok/svs—

Time to first token

200 msvs—

Ernie 4.5 Turbo: 2WMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512: 0W

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (3/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Output price

$1.2/1Mvs$0.15/1M

Input price

$0.3/1Mvs$0.15/1M

Context window

128kvs262k

Ernie 4.5 Turbo: 0WMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512: 3W

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Dimensional AdvantageErnie 4.5 Turbo 4/6

Preference Elo

No shared data

Throughput Speed

No shared data

Price Efficiency

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

$1.05/1M cheaper

Full Benchmark Score Matrix

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Elo

High is better

1,450

EloHigh is better

—

Code Elo

High is better

1,435

Code EloHigh is better

—

LiveBench

High is better

61%

LiveBenchHigh is better

—

SWE-bench

High is better

57%

SWE-benchHigh is better

—

GPQA

High is better

74.5%

GPQAHigh is better

—

TTFT

Low is better

200 ms

TTFTLow is better

—

Speed

High is better

95 tok/s

SpeedHigh is better

—

In $

Low is better

$0.3/1M

In $Low is better

$0.15/1M+100%

Out $

Low is better

$1.2/1M

Out $Low is better

$0.15/1M+700%

Context

High is better

128k

ContextHigh is better

262k+105%

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Simulate monthly production API costs based on published $/1M tokens.

Save up to 74% with Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

Monthly Volume50M tokens/mo

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Token Ratio (In vs Out)70% In / 30% Out

RAG / Search (10% out)Coding / Chat (50% out)

Ernie 4.5 Turbo$28.50 / mo

In: $10.50Out: $18.00

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512$7.50 / mo

In: $5.25Out: $2.25

Estimated Cost Delta

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 is estimated to save $21.00/month ($252/year).

Based on 50M tokens (30% gen)

Key Selection Recommendations

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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512:Pick Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 when you are optimizing output cost.

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

Lower output list price ($0.15/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

Larger window (262k).

Screenshots / visionErnie 4.5 Turbo

Ernie 4.5 Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512	Lower output list price ($0.15/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512	Larger window (262k).
Screenshots / vision	Ernie 4.5 Turbo	Ernie 4.5 Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

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LIVE

Baidu

Ernie 4.5 Turbo

Elo 1,450

LiveBench61%

SWE-bench57%

Speed95 tok/s

Output cost$1.2/1M

Mistral

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

Elo n/a

LiveBench—

SWE-bench—

Speed—

Output cost$0.15/1M

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Ernie 4.5 Turbo or Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512?: We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.
Which is better at coding, Ernie 4.5 Turbo or Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512?: SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.
Which is cheaper to run in production?: Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 output tokens are $0.15/1M versus $1.2/1M. Input prices and retry rates still move the real bill.
Which is faster, Ernie 4.5 Turbo or Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512?: We do not have TTFT for both models.
Which has the larger context window?: Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 accepts 262k tokens versus 128k.
Can I self-host either model?: Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.
Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?: No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.
What does preference Elo mean on this page?: Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Ernie 4.5 Turbo and Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

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Ernie 4.5 Turbo vs Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 benchmark

Interactive Comparison Diagram

Matchup Breakdown

Tug-of-War Matchup Matrix

Category wins across intelligence, speed, and pricing efficiency.

Ernie 4.5 Turbo (7)vsMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (3)

Ernie 4.5 Turbo: 7W (70%)Overall: Ernie 4.5 TurboMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512: 3W (30%)

← Ernie 4.5 TurboMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 →

Ernie 4.5 Turbo (5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy

Preference Elo

1,450vs—

Coding Elo

1,435vs—

SWE-bench

57%vs—

LiveBench

61%vs—

GPQA Diamond

74.5%vs—

Ernie 4.5 Turbo: 5WMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512: 0W

Ernie 4.5 Turbo (2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Output speed

95 tok/svs—

Time to first token

200 msvs—

Ernie 4.5 Turbo: 2WMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512: 0W

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (3/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Output price

$1.2/1Mvs$0.15/1M

Input price

$0.3/1Mvs$0.15/1M

Context window

128kvs262k

Ernie 4.5 Turbo: 0WMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512: 3W

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

Lower output list price ($0.15/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

Larger window (262k).

Screenshots / visionErnie 4.5 Turbo

Ernie 4.5 Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512	Lower output list price ($0.15/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512	Larger window (262k).
Screenshots / vision	Ernie 4.5 Turbo	Ernie 4.5 Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Ernie 4.5 Turbo or Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512?

We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.

Which is better at coding, Ernie 4.5 Turbo or Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512?

SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.

Which is cheaper to run in production?

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 output tokens are $0.15/1M versus $1.2/1M. Input prices and retry rates still move the real bill.

Which is faster, Ernie 4.5 Turbo or Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512?

We do not have TTFT for both models.

Which has the larger context window?

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 accepts 262k tokens versus 128k.

Can I self-host either model?

Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.

Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?

No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.

What does preference Elo mean on this page?

Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Ernie 4.5 Turbo and Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.