vs
1:2
overall capability wins (0 ties across 3 scored). Ministral 3 3B leads overall.
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs1:2
Verdict
Ministral 3 3B offers ~7.8x larger context (256K vs 33K); Ministral 3 3B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K); Ministral 3 3B is ~3.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Codestral 22B.
- Ministral 3 3B offers ~7.8x larger context (256K vs 33K)
- Ministral 3 3B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K)
- Ministral 3 3B is ~3.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Codestral 22B
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Codestral 22B
- $0.35
- Ministral 3 3B
- $0.13
Ministral 3 3B is about 2.8x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
MNPL
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
May 29, 2024
Dec 1, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral / Together (ref.)
Mistral
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
33K
256K
Max output
8K
33K
Parameters
22B
3B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.20
$0.10
Output $/1M
$0.60
$0.10
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.30
$0.10
Speed
tok/s
90
180
TTFT (s)
0.3
0.15
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
52.4
GPQA Diamond
—
35.8
Humanity's Last Exam
—
5.4
AIME 2025
—
22.0
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
9.0
AA-LCR v1.1
—
17.0
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
38.1
IFBench
—
26.8
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
24.7
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
0.0
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
41.8
—
SciCode
—
15.3
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Codestral 22B | Ministral 3 3B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | MNPL | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | May 29, 2024 | Dec 1, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral / Together (ref.) | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 33K | 256K | B +223K |
| Max output | 8K | 33K | B +25K |
| Parameters | 22B | 3B | A +19 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.20 | $0.10 | B +$0.10 |
| Output $/1M | $0.60 | $0.10 | B +$0.50 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.30 | $0.10 | B +$0.20 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 90 | 180 | B +90 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.3 | 0.15 | B +0.15 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 52.4 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.8 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.4 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | 22.0 | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 9.0 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 17.0 | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 38.1 | — |
| IFBench | — | 26.8 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 24.7 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 0.0 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 41.8 | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 15.3 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Codestral 22B
- Context
- 33K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 22B
- Price
- $0.20 / $0.60
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 0.3s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- MNPL
Original open-weight Codestral 22B — fill-in-the-middle coding model under Mistral's MNPL.
Ministral 3 3B
- Context
- 256K / 33K out
- Parameters
- 3B
- Price
- $0.10 / $0.10
- Speed
- 180 tok/s · 0.15s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Tiny Ministral 3 multimodal model - cheapest Mistral hosted tier for edge and classification.
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