vs
12:1
overall capability wins (1 ties across 14 scored). Devstral 2 leads overall.
- Reasoning6:1
- Coding3:0
- Tool use1:0
- Composite indices2:0
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs2:0
Verdict
Devstral 2 leads coding (widest gap: +26.2 on TermBench); Devstral 2 allows ~2.0x more max output (64K vs 33K); Ministral 3 8B is ~5.3x cheaper on a blended token basis than Devstral 2.
- Devstral 2 leads coding (widest gap: +26.2 on TermBench)
- Devstral 2 allows ~2.0x more max output (64K vs 33K)
- Ministral 3 8B is ~5.3x cheaper on a blended token basis than Devstral 2
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Devstral 2
- $0.90
- Ministral 3 8B
- $0.19
Ministral 3 8B is about 4.8x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Apache 2.0
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
256K
256K
Max output
64K
33K
Parameters
123B
8B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.40
$0.15
Output $/1M
$2
$0.15
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.80
$0.15
Speed
tok/s
85
150
TTFT (s)
0.35
0.18
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
76.2
64.2
GPQA Diamond
59.4
47.1
Humanity's Last Exam
3.6
4.3
AIME 2025
36.7
31.7
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
20.8
13.0
AA-LCR v1.1
32.3
25.7
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
46.0
IFBench
38.1
29.1
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
44.8
30.3
Terminal-Bench 2.1
30.3
4.1
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
32.8
20.7
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
42.0
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
1,194
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Devstral 2 | Ministral 3 8B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 256K | tie |
| Max output | 64K | 33K | A +31K |
| Parameters | 123B | 8B | A +115 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.40 | $0.15 | B +$0.25 |
| Output $/1M | $2 | $0.15 | B +$1.85 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.80 | $0.15 | B +$0.65 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 85 | 150 | B +65 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.35 | 0.18 | B +0.17 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 76.2 | 64.2 | A +12.0 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 59.4 | 47.1 | A +12.3 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6 | 4.3 | B +0.7 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 36.7 | 31.7 | A +5.0 pts |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 20.8 | 13.0 | A +7.8 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 32.3 | 25.7 | A +6.6 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 46.0 | — |
| IFBench | 38.1 | 29.1 | A +9.0 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 44.8 | 30.3 | A +14.5 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 30.3 | 4.1 | A +26.2 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 32.8 | 20.7 | A +12.1 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 42.0 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,194 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Devstral 2
- Context
- 256K / 64K out
- Parameters
- 123B
- Price
- $0.40 / $2
- Speed
- 85 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Open-weight agentic coding model for autonomous software engineering (successor path: Medium 3.5).
Ministral 3 8B
- Context
- 256K / 33K out
- Parameters
- 8B
- Price
- $0.15 / $0.15
- Speed
- 150 tok/s · 0.18s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Efficient Ministral 3 vision-capable edge model with symmetric token pricing.
Benchmark charts
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