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Ministral 3 8B

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Mistral Medium 3.1

Mistral

1:12

overall capability wins (1 ties across 14 scored). Mistral Medium 3.1 leads overall.

  • Reasoning0:8
  • Coding0:3
  • Tool use0:1
  • Composite indices0:1
  • Pricing3:0
  • Speed2:0
  • Specs1:0

Verdict

Mistral Medium 3.1 leads coding (widest gap: +11.7 on SciCode); Ministral 3 8B offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Ministral 3 8B ships open weights (Apache 2.0).

  • Mistral Medium 3.1 leads coding (widest gap: +11.7 on SciCode)
  • Ministral 3 8B offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
  • Ministral 3 8B ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
  • Ministral 3 8B is ~5.3x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Medium 3.1

Cost for 1M in + 250K out

Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.

Ministral 3 8B
$0.19
Mistral Medium 3.1
$0.90

Ministral 3 8B is about 4.8x cheaper on this workload.

Price per 1M tokens

Full comparison

Organization

Mistral

Mistral

Family

Mistral

Mistral

License

Apache 2.0

Proprietary

Open weights

Yes

No

Release

Dec 1, 2025

Aug 1, 2025

Knowledge cutoff

-

-

API / provider

Mistral

Mistral

Modalities

text, image → text

text, image → text

Specs

Context window

256K

128K

A +128K

Max output

33K

33K

tie

Parameters

8B

—

—

Pricing

Input $/1M

$0.15

$0.40

A +$0.25

Output $/1M

$0.15

$2

A +$1.85

Blended $/1M (3∶1)

$0.15

$0.80

A +$0.65

Speed

tok/s

150

100

A +50

TTFT (s)

0.18

0.3

A +0.12

Reasoning

MMLU-Pro

64.2

68.3

B +4.1 pts

GPQA Diamond

47.1

58.8

B +11.7 pts

Humanity's Last Exam

4.3

4.7

B +0.4 pts

AIME 2025

31.7

38.3

B +6.6 pts

MATH-500

—

—

—

Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)

—

—

—

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

13.0

20.8

B +7.8 pts

AA-LCR v1.1

25.7

42.7

B +17.0 pts

CritPt

—

—

—

MMMU-Pro

46.0

54.2

B +8.2 pts

IFBench

29.1

39.8

B +10.7 pts

Chartography

—

—

—

Chartography (With Tools)

—

—

—

Coding

SWE-bench Verified

—

—

—

SWE-bench Pro

—

—

—

SWE-bench Multilingual

—

—

—

LiveCodeBench

30.3

40.6

B +10.3 pts

Terminal-Bench 2.1

4.1

13.9

B +9.8 pts

Aider Polyglot

—

—

—

Terminal-Bench 3

—

—

—

BigCodeBench

—

—

—

SciCode

20.7

32.4

B +11.7 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 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 Medium 3.1

Context
128K / 33K out
Parameters
—
Price
$0.40 / $2
Speed
100 tok/s · 0.3s TTFT
Modalities
text, image → text
License
Proprietary

Cost-efficient Mistral mid-tier for enterprise chat and document tasks.

Benchmark charts

Winner bars are emphasized. Per-benchmark deltas sit above each chart.

Reasoning & knowledge

MMLU-Pro: B +4.1GPQA: B +11.7HLE: B +0.4AIME: B +6.6AA-LCR: B +17.0Omniscience Acc.: B +7.8MMMU-Pro: B +8.2IFBench: B +10.7

Coding

LiveCode: B +10.3TermBench: B +9.8SciCode: B +11.7

Tool use & function calling

τ³-Banking: B +4.5

Composite indices

AA Index v4.3: B +4.0

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