Ministral 3 8B: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Ministral 3 8B costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens, with a 262.1K context window. One of the cheapest models here — below 95% of the rating on output price. Suited to high volume, where a wrong answer is cheap to retry.

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Capabilities

API $/1M (in / out)

$0.15 / $0.15

Context window

262.1K tokens

Price / mo

API only

Overview Reviews

Ministral 3 8B 2512 is an AI model from Mistral AI, priced at $0.15 input and $0.15 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the budget tier of this rating — cheaper than 95% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 262.1K tokens in a single conversation. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, vision, reasoning, tool calling, structured JSON output. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$0.15 / $0.15per 1M tokens, in / out

Context262.1K tokenstokens per conversation

VendorMistral AIall models from this vendor

TierBudgetcheaper than 95% of models

Cost calculator

1M tokens/mo10M tokens/mo50M tokens/mo200M tokens/mo

Standard$0.15~~AED 1 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.07~~AED 0 per month~~

With caching on input$0.12~~AED 0 per month~~

Standard$1.50~~AED 6 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.75~~AED 3 per month~~

With caching on input$1.16~~AED 4 per month~~

Standard$7.50~~AED 28 per month~~

With batch −50%$3.75~~AED 14 per month~~

With caching on input$5.81~~AED 21 per month~~

Standard$30.00~~AED 110 per month~~

With batch −50%$15.00~~AED 55 per month~~

With caching on input$23.25~~AED 85 per month~~

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Ministral 3 8B 2512 sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

Qwen3.7 Flash

Cheaper

Alibaba (Qwen)

$0.03 / $0.131M tokens

Qwen3.5-9B

Closest match

Alibaba (Qwen)

$0.1 / $0.15262.1K tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

Step up

DeepSeek

$0.088606 / $0.1772121.05M tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit

Multi-step analysis, planning and code review, where the first plausible answer is often wrong.
Reading screenshots, charts, scanned documents and photos.
High-volume routing, classification and autocomplete.

Poor fit

Long multi-step reasoning, where a larger model finishes in fewer attempts.

Related filters

Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat

Vision159 models that read images

Reasoning175 models that think before answering

Tool calling172 models that call your functions

Prompt caching153 models with cheap repeated context

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Ministral 3 8B 2512 cost?

$0.15 / $0.15 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 0.55 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

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

262.1K tokens in a single conversation.

What can Ministral 3 8B 2512 do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, vision, reasoning, tool calling, structured JSON output, prompt caching, batch API, free tier, low latency, multilingual, open weights.

Is Ministral 3 8B 2512 a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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