vs
1:1
overall capability wins (0 ties across 2 scored). Ministral 3 14B leads overall.
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs1:1
Verdict
Ministral 3 14B offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Ministral 3 14B ships open weights (Apache 2.0); Ministral 3 14B is ~13.8x cheaper on a blended token basis than Magistral Medium.
- Ministral 3 14B offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Ministral 3 14B ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
- Ministral 3 14B is ~13.8x cheaper on a blended token basis than Magistral Medium
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Magistral Medium
- $3.25
- Ministral 3 14B
- $0.25
Ministral 3 14B is about 13.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Proprietary
Apache 2.0
Open weights
No
Yes
Release
Jul 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
128K
256K
Max output
40K
33K
Parameters
—
14B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$0.20
Output $/1M
$5
$0.20
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$2.75
$0.20
Speed
tok/s
60
130
TTFT (s)
0.8
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
69.3
GPQA Diamond
—
57.2
Humanity's Last Exam
—
4.6
AIME 2025
—
30.0
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
13.6
AA-LCR v1.1
—
26.3
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
49.8
IFBench
—
32.0
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
35.1
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
9.7
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
23.8
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Magistral Medium | Ministral 3 14B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | No | Yes | — |
| Release | Jul 1, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 256K | B +128K |
| Max output | 40K | 33K | A +7K |
| Parameters | — | 14B | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $2 | $0.20 | B +$1.80 |
| Output $/1M | $5 | $0.20 | B +$4.80 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $2.75 | $0.20 | B +$2.55 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 60 | 130 | B +70 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.8 | 0.2 | B +0.60 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 69.3 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 57.2 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.6 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | 30.0 | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 13.6 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 26.3 | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 49.8 | — |
| IFBench | — | 32.0 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 35.1 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 9.7 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 23.8 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Magistral Medium
- Context
- 128K / 40K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $2 / $5
- Speed
- 60 tok/s · 0.8s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Mistral's thinking/reasoning Premier model for transparent multilingual domain reasoning.
Ministral 3 14B
- Context
- 256K / 33K out
- Parameters
- 14B
- Price
- $0.20 / $0.20
- Speed
- 130 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Largest Ministral 3 edge multimodal model with symmetric $0.20/$0.20 pricing.
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