vs
7:1
overall capability wins (0 ties across 8 scored). Ministral 3 3B leads overall.
- Reasoning3:0
- Coding2:0
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs2:1
Verdict
Ministral 3 3B leads coding (widest gap: +18.1 on LiveCode); Ministral 3 3B offers ~7.8x larger context (256K vs 33K); Ministral 3 3B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K).
- Ministral 3 3B leads coding (widest gap: +18.1 on LiveCode)
- Ministral 3 3B offers ~7.8x larger context (256K vs 33K)
- Ministral 3 3B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K)
- Ministral 3 3B is ~2.4x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mixtral 8x7B
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Ministral 3 3B
- $0.13
- Mixtral 8x7B
- $0.30
Ministral 3 3B is about 2.4x 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 11, 2023
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Modalities
text, image → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
256K
33K
Max output
33K
8K
Parameters
3B
46.7B (12.9B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.10
$0.24
Output $/1M
$0.10
$0.24
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.10
$0.24
Speed
tok/s
180
90
TTFT (s)
0.15
0.3
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
52.4
38.7
GPQA Diamond
35.8
29.2
Humanity's Last Exam
5.4
4.7
AIME 2025
22.0
—
MATH-500
—
29.9
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
6.6
Terminal-Bench 2.1
0.0
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
15.3
2.8
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,197
| Metric | Ministral 3 3B | Mixtral 8x7B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 11, 2023 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 33K | A +223K |
| Max output | 33K | 8K | A +25K |
| Parameters | 3B | 46.7B (12.9B act.) | B +44 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.10 | $0.24 | A +$0.14 |
| Output $/1M | $0.10 | $0.24 | A +$0.14 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.10 | $0.24 | A +$0.14 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 180 | 90 | A +90 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.15 | 0.3 | A +0.15 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 52.4 | 38.7 | A +13.7 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 35.8 | 29.2 | A +6.6 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.4 | 4.7 | A +0.7 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 22.0 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | 29.9 | — |
| 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 | 6.6 | A +18.1 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 0.0 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 15.3 | 2.8 | A +12.5 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,197 | — |
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 8x7B
- Context
- 33K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 46.7B (12.9B act.)
- Price
- $0.24 / $0.24
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 0.3s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Breakout sparse MoE that made high-quality open chat practical on a single high-end GPU.
Benchmark charts
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