vs
6:0
overall capability wins (1 ties across 7 scored). Ministral 3 8B leads overall.
- Reasoning2:0
- Coding2:0
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs2:0
Verdict
Ministral 3 8B leads coding (widest gap: +16.2 on LiveCode); Ministral 3 8B offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Ministral 3 8B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K).
- Ministral 3 8B leads coding (widest gap: +16.2 on LiveCode)
- Ministral 3 8B offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Ministral 3 8B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K)
- Ministral 3 8B ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
- Ministral 3 8B is ~2.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Small
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Ministral 3 8B
- $0.19
- Mistral Small
- $0.35
Ministral 3 8B is about 1.9x 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
Sep 17, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text, image → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
256K
128K
Max output
33K
8K
Parameters
8B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.15
$0.20
Output $/1M
$0.15
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.15
$0.30
Speed
tok/s
150
110
TTFT (s)
0.18
0.25
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
64.2
52.9
GPQA Diamond
47.1
38.1
Humanity's Last Exam
4.3
4.3
AIME 2025
31.7
—
MATH-500
—
56.3
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
13.0
—
AA-LCR v1.1
25.7
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
46.0
—
IFBench
29.1
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
30.3
14.1
Terminal-Bench 2.1
4.1
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
20.7
15.6
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,357
| Metric | Ministral 3 8B | Mistral Small | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | Yes | No | — |
| Release | Dec 1, 2025 | Sep 17, 2024 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 128K | A +128K |
| Max output | 33K | 8K | A +25K |
| Parameters | 8B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.15 | $0.20 | A +$0.05 |
| Output $/1M | $0.15 | $0.60 | A +$0.45 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.15 | $0.30 | A +$0.15 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 150 | 110 | A +40 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.18 | 0.25 | A +0.07 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 64.2 | 52.9 | A +11.3 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.1 | 38.1 | A +9.0 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.3 | 4.3 | tie |
| AIME 2025 | 31.7 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | 56.3 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 13.0 | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 25.7 | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 46.0 | — | — |
| IFBench | 29.1 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 30.3 | 14.1 | A +16.2 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 4.1 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 20.7 | 15.6 | A +5.1 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,357 | — |
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 Small
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.20 / $0.60
- Speed
- 110 tok/s · 0.25s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cost-efficient Mistral Small (mistral-small-2409) — production chat and light agents before Small 3 / 4.
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