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Ministral 3 8B 2512 pricing, context window and specs
Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens, and reads up to 262,144 tokens per request. By blended price it is number 2 of Mistral’s 8 current models here, counting from the cheapest.
- Input / 1M
- $0.15
- Output / 1M
- $0.15
- Cached / 1M
- $0.015
- Context
- 262,144
- Max output
- Not published
- Released
- 2025-12-02
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Pricing
Ministral 3 8B 2512 API pricing
| Price per 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.15 | $0.15 |
| Cached input (read) | $0.015 | – |
| Batch API | $0.075 | $0.075 |
Output costs about the same as input, so long replies drive the bill more than long prompts. If your requests share a long fixed prefix, such as a system prompt or tool definitions, caching cuts that part to 10% of the normal input price.
Examples
What Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs in practice
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Requests/day | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot50% cached | 1,500 / 400 | 1,000 | $0.000184 | $5.59 |
| RAG app20% cached | 6,000 / 500 | 500 | $0.000813 | $12.36 |
| Coding agent80% cached | 40,000 / 2,000 | 200 | $0.00198 | $12.05 |
| Document summariserbatch | 8,000 / 600 | 300 | $0.000645 | $5.89 |
Change any number in the cost calculator.
Context
Context window
Ministral 3 8B 2512 accepts up to 262,144 tokens per request, roughly 196,608 English words or 393 pages. That budget is shared between your prompt and the reply, and no separate cap on the reply is published.
Filling the whole window with one prompt costs about $0.0393 at list price, so for repeated long-document work, retrieval (sending only the relevant parts) or prompt caching is usually much cheaper.
Features
Capabilities
- Image input
- Yes
- Tool / function calling
- Yes
- Reasoning mode
- No
- Prompt caching
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Open weights
- Yes
- Accepts
- text, image
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not published
As declared by the provider’s API. It shows a feature exists, not how well it works.
API
Ministral 3 8B 2512 model ID
- OpenRouter
mistralai/ministral-8b-2512- Open weights
- mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
Use the OpenRouter ID when calling it through OpenRouter; Mistral’s own API may name it differently. See the model ID reference for the providers we document.
Mistral
Where Ministral 3 8B 2512 sits in Mistral’s line-up
Ranked by blended price (three parts input to one part output, $0.15 per 1M for Ministral 3 8B 2512), it is number 2 of Mistral’s 8 current models here, counting from the cheapest. One step down, Ministral 3 3B 2512 costs $0.10 blended (33% less). Unlike Ministral 3 8B 2512, it reads up to 131,072 tokens (262,144 here). One step up, Voxtral Small 24B 2507 costs $0.15, the same. Unlike Ministral 3 8B 2512, it accepts files and audio, doesn’t accept images and reads up to 32,768 tokens (262,144 here). See every Mistral model and price
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ministral 3 3B 2512 | $0.10 | $0.10 | 131,072 | 2025-12-02 |
| Ministral 3 8B 2512 (this page) | $0.15 | $0.15 | 262,144 | 2025-12-02 |
| Voxtral Small 24B 2507 | $0.10 | $0.30 | 32,768 | 2025-10-30 |
| Ministral 3 14B 2512 | $0.20 | $0.20 | 262,144 | 2025-12-02 |
| Mistral Small 4 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 262,144 | 2026-03-16 |
| Codestral 2508 | $0.30 | $0.90 | 128,000 | 2025-08-01 |
| Mistral Large 4 | $0.68 | $2.09 | 1,048,576 | 2026-10-06 |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262,144 | 2026-04-30 |
Mistral’s current models with a page here, cheapest first. Older and superseded models are listed on the provider page and in the comparison table.
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Cheaper alternatives
- Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral33% cheaper
- Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle29% cheaper
- Qwen3.5-9BQwen25% cheaper
- Seed 1.6 FlashByteDance Seed13% cheaper
Current models from major providers, one per provider, that keep image input, tool calling, a usable context window and output limit. Compared by blended price.
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Similarly priced models
- Gemma 4 31BGoogle$0.09 / $0.34
- Seed 1.6 FlashByteDance Seed$0.075 / $0.30
- Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA$0.08 / $0.45
- Qwen3.5-9BQwen$0.10 / $0.15
- GPT-6 LunaOpenAI$0.10 / $0.50
Current models from other major providers, closest blended price.
FAQ
Ministral 3 8B 2512 questions
How much does Ministral 3 8B 2512 cost?
Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.015. A typical chatbot reply (1,500 tokens in, 400 out) costs about $0.000285. Use the LLM cost calculator for your own workload.
What is Ministral 3 8B 2512’s context window?
262,144 tokens, about 196,608 English words or 393 printed pages, shared between your prompt and the reply. No separate limit on the reply is published, so the window is the limit.
Does Ministral 3 8B 2512 support prompt caching and batch requests?
Yes, cached input is billed at $0.015 per million tokens (10% of the normal input price). A batch API is available at $0.075 input and $0.075 output per million tokens.
What are cheaper alternatives to Ministral 3 8B 2512?
With the same essentials (image input and tool calling), the cheapest options are Ministral 3 3B 2512 (33% cheaper), Gemma 4 26B A4B (29% cheaper), Qwen3.5-9B (25% cheaper). Cheaper doesn’t mean equivalent, so test them on your own prompts.
What is the API model ID for Ministral 3 8B 2512?
On OpenRouter it is mistralai/ministral-8b-2512. Mistral’s own API may use a different name, so check its model list before you deploy. Pass the ID as the model value in each request.
Is Ministral 3 8B 2512 open source?
Yes, Ministral 3 8B 2512 has open weights, so you can run it yourself or choose between several hosting providers. The prices here are a typical hosted price.