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Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512

mistralai/ministral-3b-2512

The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

Modalities

TextImageText

In / out price

$0.1 / $0.1 per 1M

Context

131K

Released

Dec 2, 2025

Why use Ministral 3 3B 2512

  • Understands images
  • Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
  • Structured (JSON) outputs

Pricing

Input$0.1 / 1M tokens
Output$0.1 / 1M tokens
Cached input (read)$0.010 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

How it ranks

Intelligence index4.8
Coding index4.8
Agentic index0.8

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Cost calculator

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ModelPer runPer monthPer 1,000 runs
Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512$0.0003$0.280$0.280

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

  • Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512

131,072 tokens ≈ 198 pages

Fits: uses 92% of the window.

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