vs
6:1
overall capability wins (0 ties across 7 scored). Ministral 3 8B leads overall.
- Reasoning3:1
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs3:0
Verdict
Ministral 3 8B edges reasoning & knowledge; Ministral 3 8B offers ~31.3x larger context (256K vs 8K); Ministral 3 8B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K).
- Ministral 3 8B edges reasoning & knowledge
- Ministral 3 8B offers ~31.3x larger context (256K vs 8K)
- Ministral 3 8B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K)
- Mistral 7B is ~2.5x 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 8B
- $0.19
- Mistral 7B
- $0.07
Mistral 7B is about 2.5x 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
Sep 27, 2023
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Modalities
text, image → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
256K
8K
Max output
33K
8K
Parameters
8B
7B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.15
$0.06
Output $/1M
$0.15
$0.06
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.15
$0.06
Speed
tok/s
150
180
TTFT (s)
0.18
0.15
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
64.2
—
GPQA Diamond
47.1
17.7
Humanity's Last Exam
4.3
4.6
AIME 2025
31.7
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
13.0
9.0
AA-LCR v1.1
25.7
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
46.0
—
IFBench
29.1
19.9
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
30.3
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
4.1
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
19.5
SciCode
20.7
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,110
| Metric | Ministral 3 8B | Mistral 7B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Dec 1, 2025 | Sep 27, 2023 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 8K | A +248K |
| Max output | 33K | 8K | A +25K |
| Parameters | 8B | 7B | A +1.00 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.15 | $0.06 | B +$0.09 |
| Output $/1M | $0.15 | $0.06 | B +$0.09 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.15 | $0.06 | B +$0.09 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 150 | 180 | B +30 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.18 | 0.15 | B +0.03 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 64.2 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.1 | 17.7 | A +29.4 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.3 | 4.6 | B +0.3 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 31.7 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 13.0 | 9.0 | A +4.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 25.7 | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 46.0 | — | — |
| IFBench | 29.1 | 19.9 | A +9.2 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 30.3 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 4.1 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | 19.5 | — |
| SciCode | 20.7 | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,110 | — |
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.
Mistral 7B
- Context
- 8K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 7B
- Price
- $0.06 / $0.06
- Speed
- 180 tok/s · 0.15s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
The 7B that put Mistral on the map — still a default fine-tune and local-chat base.
Benchmark charts
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