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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

MISTRALAI Developer Architecture Profile

OpenRouter ↗HuggingFace ↗
Intelligence (ELO)1429Aider: 26.3%
Max Context Limit262,144Max Out: 209,715 tokens
Prompt Caching90% OFF$0.01 / 1M cached
Standard API / 1M$0.30Blended Standard Rate

Model Capabilities & Contract SLAs

  • Drafting
  • Classification
  • Vision
  • Agentic
  • Coding & Logic
  • Fictional
  • 📋 Strict JSON Schema
  • 🛠️ Native Tool Calling
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

Granular Pricing Matrix

Input Tokens (Standard Prompt)$0.15 / 1M
⚡ Cached Input (Prompt Cache Read)90% OFF$0.01 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$0.15 / 1M

Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 10/2/2026

Evaluate Competitors

VS Engine MatchupMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VLVS Engine MatchupMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs Nex AGI: Nex-N2.5-MiniVS Engine MatchupMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3VS Engine MatchupMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-FlashVS Engine MatchupMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs Z.ai: GLM 4.6VVS Engine MatchupMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 (batch)