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Ministral 3 8B 2512: price, performance and context
Open Ministral 3 8B 2512 by Mistral costs $0.15 per 1M input and $0.15 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 262.1K tokens in one request (≈ 790 pages of text) and scores 5.5 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 205 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, including in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.15
- Output / 1M tokens
- $0.15
- Context window
- 262.1K tokens
- Max. output
- 209.7K tokens
- Performance index
- 5.5 points · rank 205 of 212
- Coding index
- 9.7 points · rank 114 of 119
- Agentic index
- 0.6 points · rank 87 of 91
- Cost at your usage
- $0.188 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- Dec 02, 2025
- Capabilities
- Vision, Tool Calling
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.00 | 83,000 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.00 | 103,000 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.001 | 18,000 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.001 | 10,000 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.015 | 650 |
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