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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.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · mistralai/ministral-8b-2512

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Key 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.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0083,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00103,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.00118,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.00110,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.015650

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