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Ministral 3 3B

by Mistral · 3B parameters

Current budget open weights cheap tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.100

per 1M tokens

Output

$0.100

per 1M tokens

Blended

$0.100

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Source: official Mistral pricing · read Jun 25, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-09

Overview

Smallest Mistral model for simple tasks. $0.10/$0.10 per 1M tokens.

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Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 3/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference ✓ Long context ✓ Open weights ✓ Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Percentile vs all tracked models 4.3th3 independent measurements
Percentile per $/Mtok 43
GPQA Diamond vendor
53.4%
AIME 2025 vendor
72.1%

Every per-benchmark score we hold for this model is reported by its own vendor, so none is counted toward an accuracy average or any ranking. The percentile above is its standing across the independent composites below.

Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 7.1 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA Agentic Index: 1.6 (Tool use, planning, autonomy)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: -64 (−100–100)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #142 of 150 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 3 independent measurements
  • Ranks #54 of 150 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar

174 tokens/sec output

Source: Artificial Analysis, Mistral model card (reasoning variant) · updated Jul 18, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Mistral
Context window
128K tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
3B
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Sep 1, 2025
Status
Current
Last updated
Jun 25, 2026
Tags
budgetopen-weightsfast

Availability verified: Aug 2, 2026 — listed on Mistral's own page