ministral-8b-latest vs zai-glm-4.6

Capability for the money

Not the same tier: zai-glm-4.6 leads ministral-8b-latest by 50.3 points on tool use (τ²-bench), for 15.8× the price.

1. Following instructions

   extraction, classification, sticking to a format

   IFBench
   ministral-8b-latest29.1%

   zai-glm-4.636.7%

   zai-glm-4.6 +7.6

2. Coding

   writing and fixing code

   LiveCodeBench
   ministral-8b-latest30.3%

   zai-glm-4.656.1%

   zai-glm-4.6 +25.8

3. Tool use

   multi-step agent work against real tools

   τ²-bench
   ministral-8b-latest26.6%

   zai-glm-4.676.9%

   zai-glm-4.6 +50.3

4. Hard reasoning

   graduate-level science and multi-step analysis

   GPQA Diamond
   ministral-8b-latest47.1%

   zai-glm-4.663.2%

   zai-glm-4.6 +16.1

Averaged over the benchmarks both models sat, ministral-8b-latest returns 221.8 points of pass rate per dollar of blended price against 24.5 — the ratio that decides whether the dearer model earns its rate.

Each figure is a pass rate: the share of that test set the model answered correctly, measured by a third party rather than self-reported by the lab. Rows are different tests of different difficulty, so compare a model against the other model, not one row against the next. And a benchmark is not your workload — it narrows the shortlist, it does not pick for you.