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Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) Pricing
Mistral AI · mistralai-ministral-8b-2512-batch
Input / 1M tokens
$0.075
Output / 1M tokens
$0.075
Context window
262,144 tokens
≈ 350 pages of text
Max output
209,715 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0001
1,000 requests / month$0.12/mo10,000 requests / month$1.20/mo100,000 requests / month$12.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Aug 2026. Each step marks a price change — hover a point for the exact date and rate.
What it excels at
Efficient for high-volume inference on long-context tasks with low per-token cost and open-weight deployment flexibility.
The business tradeoff
8B scale limits depth on complex multi-step reasoning and instruction following compared with larger models in the same family.
Cheaper from Mistral AI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Sep 10, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.