Ministral 3B API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 22, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

Ministral 3B was released on October 17, 2024. Pricing starts at $0.040 per million input tokens and $0.040 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 131K tokens. API access is available through Mistral AI.

Context Window

131K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.040

Output$0.040

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output292 tok/s

TTFT0.27s

median latency

Capabilities

Tools

Pricing Comparison

Compare Ministral 3B with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
MI Mistral AI	Ministral 3B	$0.040	$0.040	24.7	52.4	35.8	131,072	Try
G Google	Gemma 3 12B	$0.030	$0.100	13.7	59.5	34.9	131,072	Try
M Deepseek	R1 Distill Llama 70B	$0.030	$0.110	26.6	79.5	40.2	131,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct	$0.030	$0.110	29.5	63.5	41.7	32,768	Try
G Google	Gemma 2 9B	$0.030	$0.090	—	31.9	14.8	8,192	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3 8B Instruct	$0.030	$0.060	9.6	40.5	29.6	8,192	Try
AM Amazon	Nova Micro 1.0	$0.035	$0.140	14.0	53.1	35.8	128,000	Try
CO Cohere	Command R7B (12-2024)	$0.037	$0.150	—	—	—	128,000	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-OSS-120b	$0.039	$0.190	87.8	80.8	78.2	131,072	Try
NV Nvidia	Nemotron Nano 9B V2	$0.040	$0.160	70.1	73.9	55.7	131,072	Try
G Google	Gemma 3 27B	$0.040	$0.150	13.7	66.9	42.8	96,000	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Ministral 3B is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.040

Cheapest Input/M

$0.040

Cheapest Output/M

Vercel

Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
V Vercel Best Price	$0.040	$0.040	-
Mistral Best Price	$0.040	$0.040	100.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

12.1 (13th pct)

Coding

4.8 (6th pct)

Math

22.0 (25th pct)

MMLU Pro

52.4 (15th pct)

GPQA

35.8 (15th pct)

LiveCodeBench

24.7 (18th pct)

AIME

Aider

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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