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Ministral 3 8B 2512 Pricing
Mistral AI · mistralai-ministral-8b-2512
Input / 1M tokens
$0.150
Output / 1M tokens
$0.150
Context window
262,144 tokens
≈ 350 pages of text
Max output
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What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0002
1,000 requests / month$0.24/mo10,000 requests / month$2.40/mo100,000 requests / month$24.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Ministral 3 8B 2512 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
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What it excels at
Handles high-volume text and basic vision tasks at low cost with open weights and 262k context.
The business tradeoff
8B scale restricts depth on complex reasoning or multi-step tasks compared with larger models.
Cheaper from Mistral AI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.