vs
5:3
overall capability wins (0 ties across 8 scored). Ministral 3 3B leads overall.
- Reasoning2:1
- Coding1:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs2:1
Verdict
Ministral 3 3B edges reasoning & knowledge; Ministral 3 3B offers ~3.9x larger context (256K vs 66K); Ministral 3 3B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K).
- Ministral 3 3B edges reasoning & knowledge
- Ministral 3 3B offers ~3.9x larger context (256K vs 66K)
- Ministral 3 3B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K)
- Ministral 3 3B is ~12.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mixtral 8x22B
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Ministral 3 3B
- $0.13
- Mixtral 8x22B
- $1.50
Ministral 3 3B is about 12.0x 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
Apr 17, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Modalities
text, image → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
256K
66K
Max output
33K
8K
Parameters
3B
141B (39B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.10
$1.20
Output $/1M
$0.10
$1.20
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.10
$1.20
Speed
tok/s
180
50
TTFT (s)
0.15
0.5
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
52.4
53.7
GPQA Diamond
35.8
33.2
Humanity's Last Exam
5.4
4.0
AIME 2025
22.0
—
MATH-500
—
54.5
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
14.8
Terminal-Bench 2.1
0.0
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
40.6
SciCode
15.3
18.8
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,229
| Metric | Ministral 3 3B | Mixtral 8x22B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Dec 1, 2025 | Apr 17, 2024 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 66K | A +190K |
| Max output | 33K | 8K | A +25K |
| Parameters | 3B | 141B (39B act.) | B +138 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.10 | $1.20 | A +$1.10 |
| Output $/1M | $0.10 | $1.20 | A +$1.10 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.10 | $1.20 | A +$1.10 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 180 | 50 | A +130 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.15 | 0.5 | A +0.35 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 52.4 | 53.7 | B +1.3 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 35.8 | 33.2 | A +2.6 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.4 | 4.0 | A +1.4 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 22.0 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | 54.5 | — |
| 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 | 14.8 | A +9.9 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 0.0 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | 40.6 | — |
| SciCode | 15.3 | 18.8 | B +3.5 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,229 | — |
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.
Mixtral 8x22B
- Context
- 66K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 141B (39B act.)
- Price
- $1.20 / $1.20
- Speed
- 50 tok/s · 0.5s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Larger Mixtral MoE (141B / 39B active) — strong open chat and coding before Mistral Large 2.
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