vs
2:11
overall capability wins (2 ties across 15 scored). Ministral 3 8B leads overall.
- Reasoning1:7
- Coding0:3
- Tool use1:0
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:1
Verdict
Ministral 3 8B leads coding (widest gap: +5.6 on LiveCode); Ministral 3 3B is ~1.5x cheaper on a blended token basis than Ministral 3 8B.
- Ministral 3 8B leads coding (widest gap: +5.6 on LiveCode)
- Ministral 3 3B is ~1.5x cheaper on a blended token basis than Ministral 3 8B
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Ministral 3 3B
- $0.13
- Ministral 3 8B
- $0.19
Ministral 3 3B is about 1.5x 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, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
256K
256K
Max output
33K
33K
Parameters
3B
8B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.10
$0.15
Output $/1M
$0.10
$0.15
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.10
$0.15
Speed
tok/s
180
150
TTFT (s)
0.15
0.18
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
52.4
64.2
GPQA Diamond
35.8
47.1
Humanity's Last Exam
5.4
4.3
AIME 2025
22.0
31.7
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
9.0
13.0
AA-LCR v1.1
17.0
25.7
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
38.1
46.0
IFBench
26.8
29.1
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
24.7
30.3
Terminal-Bench 2.1
0.0
4.1
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
15.3
20.7
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Ministral 3 3B | 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, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 256K | tie |
| Max output | 33K | 33K | tie |
| Parameters | 3B | 8B | B +5.00 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.10 | $0.15 | A +$0.05 |
| Output $/1M | $0.10 | $0.15 | A +$0.05 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.10 | $0.15 | A +$0.05 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 180 | 150 | A +30 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.15 | 0.18 | A +0.03 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 52.4 | 64.2 | B +11.8 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 35.8 | 47.1 | B +11.3 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.4 | 4.3 | A +1.1 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 22.0 | 31.7 | B +9.7 pts |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 9.0 | 13.0 | B +4.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 17.0 | 25.7 | B +8.7 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 38.1 | 46.0 | B +7.9 pts |
| IFBench | 26.8 | 29.1 | B +2.3 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 24.7 | 30.3 | B +5.6 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 0.0 | 4.1 | B +4.1 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 15.3 | 20.7 | B +5.4 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
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.
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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