vs
6:3
overall capability wins (0 ties across 9 scored). Devstral Small leads overall.
- Reasoning4:1
- Coding1:0
- Pricing1:2
- Speed0:2
- Specs1:2
Verdict
Devstral Small leads coding (widest gap: +9.0 on SciCode); Ministral 3 3B offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Ministral 3 3B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K).
- Devstral Small leads coding (widest gap: +9.0 on SciCode)
- Ministral 3 3B offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Ministral 3 3B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K)
- Ministral 3 3B is ~1.2x cheaper on a blended token basis than Devstral Small
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Devstral Small
- $0.14
- Ministral 3 3B
- $0.13
Ministral 3 3B is about 1.1x 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
May 21, 2025
Dec 1, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
128K
256K
Max output
8K
33K
Parameters
24B
3B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.07
$0.10
Output $/1M
$0.28
$0.10
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.12
$0.10
Speed
tok/s
100
180
TTFT (s)
0.28
0.15
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
52.4
GPQA Diamond
41.4
35.8
Humanity's Last Exam
3.8
5.4
AIME 2025
—
22.0
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
14.7
9.0
AA-LCR v1.1
18.7
17.0
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
38.1
IFBench
34.6
26.8
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
46.8
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
24.7
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
0.0
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
24.3
15.3
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
14.6
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Devstral Small | Ministral 3 3B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | May 21, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 256K | B +128K |
| Max output | 8K | 33K | B +25K |
| Parameters | 24B | 3B | A +21 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.07 | $0.10 | A +$0.03 |
| Output $/1M | $0.28 | $0.10 | B +$0.18 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.12 | $0.10 | B +$0.02 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 100 | 180 | B +80 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.28 | 0.15 | B +0.13 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 52.4 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 41.4 | 35.8 | A +5.6 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.8 | 5.4 | B +1.6 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | 22.0 | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 14.7 | 9.0 | A +5.7 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 18.7 | 17.0 | A +1.7 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 38.1 | — |
| IFBench | 34.6 | 26.8 | A +7.8 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 46.8 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 24.7 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 0.0 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 24.3 | 15.3 | A +9.0 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 14.6 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Devstral Small
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 24B
- Price
- $0.07 / $0.28
- Speed
- 100 tok/s · 0.28s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Open coding agent model from Mistral — lighter sibling to Devstral 2 for IDE workflows.
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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