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# Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512: $0.150/M in, $0.150/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Ministral 3 8B 2512

Mistral · released 2025-12-02

 $0.150 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## Gemma 4 26B A4B is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+17.1** higher and costs **8% less** ($0.138/M against $0.150/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash-0731) is cheaper still (30% less) but drops no image input.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.150 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.150 /M |
| Cached input | $0.015 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 9 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 9.7 |
| Agentic | 1.2 |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.