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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Ministral 3 8B 2512

List-price comparison ·Claude Haiku 4.5 details ·Ministral 3 8B 2512 details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Ministral 3 8B 2512 is the cheapest — 93% less than the priciest here ($24.00/mo vs $320.00/mo).

 Claude Haiku 4.5Ministral 3 8B 2512
Input / 1M tokens$1.00$0.150
Output / 1M tokens$5.00$0.150
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0032$0.0002
Context window200k tokens262,144 tokens
Max output64k tokens209,715 tokens
Quality score70/10062/100
TierFlashFlash
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Haiku 4.5Ministral 3 8B 2512
1,000$3.20$0.24
10,000$32.00$2.40
100,000$320.00$24.00
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Claude Haiku 4.5

Very low latency for high-volume, simple tasks — classification, short summaries, and lightweight chat where response time matters more than depth.

Noticeably weaker on multi-step reasoning and long-context synthesis; pairing with a larger model for escalation is common.

Ministral 3 8B 2512

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