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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 is a large language model from Mistral AI. It costs $0.150 per million input tokens and $0.150 per million output tokens. Its context window is 262K tokens.

Tool callingStructured outputPrompt cachingBatch tierOpen weightsimage input
Input / 1M tokens
$0.150
Output / 1M tokens
$0.150
Cached input / 1M
$0.015

On repeated prefixes

Context window
262K

tokens

Who serves it cheapest

1 hosts serve Ministral 3 8B 2512. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.

Providers serving Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512, cheapest first
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MContextThroughputUptime 24h
MistralCheapest$0.150$0.150262K-98.9%

Benchmarks

Independent scores published alongside the catalogue.

Intelligence index
5.5
Coding index
9.7
Agentic index
0.6

About Ministral 3 8B 2512

A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

Specifications

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 specifications
Model IDmistralai/ministral-8b-2512
ProviderMistral AI
Context window262K tokens
Max output210K tokens
Input modalitiestext, image
Output modalitiestext
Knowledge cutoff-
Open weightsYes - mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
ReleasedDecember 2, 2025

Cheaper alternatives

Models that cost less than Ministral 3 8B 2512 while keeping at least half its context window and every input modality it supports.

Frequently asked

How much does Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 cost?

$0.150 per million input tokens and $0.150 per million output tokens. Cached input reads cost $0.015 per million tokens.

What is the context window of Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512?

262K tokens, with up to 210K tokens of output per request.

Confirm against the source: Mistral AI official pricing.