Ministral 3 8B — pricing & specs
Ministral 3 8B is a nano model from Mistral, at capability tier 2 of 8. Live $/M-token pricing and specs from the Mintok catalog, as of 2026-10-09.
$/M-token pricing
as of 2026-10-09 · MistralWhat Ministral 3 8B costs in practice
At $0.15/M output tokens, Ministral 3 8B is the 1st-cheapest of 6 priced tier-2 models in the Mintok catalog — about 55% below the tier median of $0.33/M.
| Scenario | Est. cost |
|---|---|
| 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.300 |
| A 10K-token request (8K in / 2K out) | $0.0015 |
| 1,000 agent runs (~2K in / 500 out each) | $0.375 |
| 1M-token RAG chat session (900K cached in / 100K out) | $0.028 |
Estimated from list price (as of 2026-10-09) at the token mixes shown; your real cost depends on prompt/response length and cache hit-rate. Model your own volume →
Specifications
- Vendor
- Mistral
- Family
- Ministral 3
- Capability tier
- 2 / 8
- Size class
- NANO
- Category
- GENERAL
- Parameters
- 8B total · 8B active (MoE)
- Licensing
- Proprietary
Carbon footprint (modeled)
Modeled decode on a reference Cerebras Cerebras WSE-3 Turbo at 50% MBU, batch 32, global-avg grid. Compare all models & grids →
Alternatives at tier 2
Same capability tier, sorted by output price — the cheaper-capable options.
- Ministral 3 14BMistral$0.20/M out
- Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle$0.33/M out
- Qwen3 30B A3BAlibaba$0.50/M out
- Qwen3.6 35B A3BAlibaba$1/M out
- GPT-5.4 nanoOpenAI$1.25/M out
- LLaMA 3 8BMetaopen/M out
FAQ
How much does Ministral 3 8B cost per token?
Ministral 3 8B costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens (cached input $0.01/M), via Mistral, as of 2026-10-09.
Is Ministral 3 8B expensive?
At $0.15/M output tokens, Ministral 3 8B is the 1st-cheapest of 6 priced tier-2 models in the Mintok catalog — about 55% below the tier median of $0.33/M.
What does a typical request with Ministral 3 8B cost?
At list price, a 10K-token request (8K in / 2K out) with Ministral 3 8B costs about $0.0015, and 1,000 agent runs (~2K in / 500 out each) about $0.375.
What capability tier is Ministral 3 8B?
Ministral 3 8B sits at capability tier 2 of 8 on the Mintok scale (NANO size class).
Is Ministral 3 8B open-source or proprietary?
Ministral 3 8B is a proprietary model from Mistral, accessed via API.
Put Ministral 3 8B to work
Benchmark it on your prompts, or size a deployment and compare $/M-token against alternatives.
Pricing and specs are maintained by Mintok's catalog watchers from public sources. Not investment advice. Methodology.