Mistral AI · Released Dec 2, 2025Ministral 3 8B
Compact open vision-language model for edge deployment, instruction following, and tool use.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.15per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.15per 1M tokens
- Context
- 262K262K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.15per million tokens
- Output
- $0.15per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.15cheaper than 83% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.375 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $4.50 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $45.00 |
Median of 1 paid API provider on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Ministral 3 8B yet.
The details
- Lab
- Mistral AI
- Released
- Dec 2, 2025
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 262,144 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Weights
- Open weights · Apache 2.0
- Availability
- 1 API providerlisted on models.dev
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About Ministral 3 8B
How much does Ministral 3 8B cost?
Ministral 3 8B costs $0.15 input / $0.15 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.15 per million tokens, cheaper than 83% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Ministral 3 8B?
Ministral 3 8B accepts up to 262,144 tokens per request and can write up to 262,144 tokens in one response.
How good is Ministral 3 8B?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Ministral 3 8B yet.
Is Ministral 3 8B open source?
Yes. Mistral AI publishes the weights under the Apache 2.0 licence, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Ministral 3 8B support?
Ministral 3 8B accepts text and images and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling and can return structured JSON output.
When was Ministral 3 8B released?
Mistral AI released Ministral 3 8B on Dec 2, 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Ministral 3 8B?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are GLM-4.7-FlashX (Z.ai (Zhipu), $0.07 / $0.40), Step 3.5 Flash (StepFun, $0.10 / $0.30), Granite-4.0-H-Small (IBM, $0.064 / $0.265) and Apertus 8B (Swiss AI, $0.10 / $0.20).