How much does Ministral 3B cost?

Ministral 3B costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens, using the list price from Mistral AI as of 26 Oct 2026. That is about $0.01 for 100 chats of about 1,000 tokens in and 500 tokens back. Confirm on the maker's site before you buy, because prices change.

What is the context window of Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B has a context window of 131K tokens, roughly 98,000 words of text read at once. A single answer can be up to 131K tokens long.

Is Ministral 3B open source?

We list Ministral 3B as closed: it is used through its maker's apps or API and its weights are not published (Epoch AI lists its access as "API access").

How good is Ministral 3B compared with other AI models?

On the Epoch Capabilities Index, Ministral 3B scores 118.0 (likely range 106.3 to 121.9), which ranks 205 of 270 models we track. Scores close together are a tie in practice.

How does Ministral 3B compare with GPT-3.5 Turbo (Nov 2023)?

GPT-3.5 Turbo (Nov 2023) scores higher on 1 of 2 shared quality measures, Ministral 3B on 0. 1 measure is too close to call. Ministral 3B costs about 92% less than GPT-3.5 Turbo (Nov 2023) on a blended price of $0.10 against $1.25 per million tokens. See the full comparison for every measure.

How current are these numbers for Ministral 3B?

The newest data on this page is dated 26 Oct 2026. Scores come from Epoch AI and Arena, prices from the open LiteLLM price list.

AI Rankings

Ministral 3B: Score, Price and Context Window

Where Ministral 3B from Mistral AI ranks, what it costs and how much text it can read, in plain numbers with the sources.

Data updated 26 Oct 2026

Mistral AI
Closed weights
Released Oct 2024

Its score range overlaps with Mixtral 8x7B, the model just above it, so a small gap in rank is not a meaningful difference.

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Cutting-edge tasks: its overall Epoch score is in the lower part of the models we track.

These lines are worked out from the numbers on this page, not from hands-on testing.

Key facts

Overall score: 118.0; Rank 205 of 270. Likely range 106.3 to 121.9.
Price per million tokens: $0.10 in / $0.10 out; Blended $0.10. Cached input $0.01. List price from Mistral AI, checked 26 Oct 2026.
Context window: 131K tokens; About 98,000 words at once. One answer up to 131K tokens.
Weights: Closed; Used through the maker's apps or API (Epoch AI: API access).

Features listed by the price list: Image input, Tool use, Structured output.

We do not have an Arena human-vote rating for Ministral 3B yet. It is shown as "Not measured" rather than guessed.

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How Ministral 3B stacks up

Each strip shows every model we track as faint bars. The dot is this model. Better is always to the right, even for price.

Ministral 3B compared with all models we trackOverall capability: 118.0. Better than 24% of the other 269 models. Price: $0.10 per 1M. Cheaper than 93% of the other 200 priced models. Context window: 131K tokens. Larger context window than 28% of the other 198 models.

Overall capability118.0
Better than 24% of the other 269 models
Epoch Capabilities Index: one score that combines many tests.
Price$0.10 per 1M
Cheaper than 93% of the other 200 priced modelsTop 10%
Blended price per million tokens. Lower is better, so the cheapest models sit on the right.
Context window131K tokens
Larger context window than 28% of the other 198 models
How much text it can read at once. Bigger suits long documents.

Compared with the other published models that have each measure. Data updated 26 Oct 2026.

Where Ministral 3B ranks

Leaderboards it appears on, best placing first.

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Test results

Each test checks one kind of skill. Place shows where it stands among the models that took that test.

GPQA Diamond
Very hard multiple-choice science questions in biology, physics and chemistry, written by experts and designed so a quick web search does not give the answer.
25.3%
Place 180 of 183

What it costs in everyday terms

List prices turned into amounts you can picture. Real bills depend on how you use it.

100 chats: $0.01; Cost of 100 chats assumes each chat sends 1,000 tokens (about 750 words) and gets 500 tokens (about 375 words) back.
A 300-page book: $0.01; Cost to read a 300-page book assumes about 100,000 input tokens and no reply. A real book varies with page size and language.
Blended price: $0.10 per 1M; Three parts input to one part output. Our own calculation for comparing models.

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Questions about Ministral 3B

How much does Ministral 3B cost?: Ministral 3B costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens, using the list price from Mistral AI as of 26 Oct 2026. That is about $0.01 for 100 chats of about 1,000 tokens in and 500 tokens back. Confirm on the maker's site before you buy, because prices change.
What is the context window of Ministral 3B?: Ministral 3B has a context window of 131K tokens, roughly 98,000 words of text read at once. A single answer can be up to 131K tokens long.
Is Ministral 3B open source?: We list Ministral 3B as closed: it is used through its maker's apps or API and its weights are not published (Epoch AI lists its access as "API access").
How good is Ministral 3B compared with other AI models?: On the Epoch Capabilities Index, Ministral 3B scores 118.0 (likely range 106.3 to 121.9), which ranks 205 of 270 models we track. Scores close together are a tie in practice.
How does Ministral 3B compare with GPT-3.5 Turbo (Nov 2023)?: GPT-3.5 Turbo (Nov 2023) scores higher on 1 of 2 shared quality measures, Ministral 3B on 0. 1 measure is too close to call. Ministral 3B costs about 92% less than GPT-3.5 Turbo (Nov 2023) on a blended price of $0.10 against $1.25 per million tokens. See the full comparison for every measure.
How current are these numbers for Ministral 3B?: The newest data on this page is dated 26 Oct 2026. Scores come from Epoch AI and Arena, prices from the open LiteLLM price list.

Where this data comes from

Epoch AI: Benchmark data: Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking', epoch.ai/benchmarks (CC BY 4.0). We match models across sources, rank them and show them in charts. Scores are not changed. Epoch AI does not endorse this site.
LiteLLM model price list: Prices and context windows: LiteLLM model price list (github.com/BerriAI/litellm, MIT licence). We use the model maker's own price entry when there is one. Prices change often, so always confirm on the maker's site before you buy.

Newest data on this page: 26 Oct 2026. Prices are list prices and change often, so confirm on the maker's site before you buy. Sponsors never change a score or an order. How we calculate this · Report a mistake