Ministral 3B: API pricing, providers and specs
Ministral 3B is a text model by Mistral. 5 providers serve it, from $0.10 to $0.159 /1M; the lowest price is at Vercel AI Gateway.
A newer version is out: Ministral 14B · released Dec 2, 2025
How Ministral 3B compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.10 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 93% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 131K-token context window is larger than 21% of them (median 262K), about 200 pages of text.
- 5 providers serve it; 65% of comparable models have fewer.
Ministral 3B prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.10/1M | $0.10/1M | $0.01/1M | 131K |
| OpenRouter | $0.10/1M | From$0.10/1M | $0.01/1M | 131K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.10/1M | From$0.10/1M | — | — |
Cortecs | $0.123/1M | $0.123/1M | $0.012/1M | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.159/1M | $0.159/1M | $0.011/1M | — |
- Vercel AI Gateway$0.10
- OpenRouterFrom$0.10
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$0.10
- Cortecs$0.123
- AI/ML API$0.159
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Mistral
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 131K≈ 200 pages of text
- Max output
- 105K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Oct 16, 2024
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Monthly searches
- 2K
Alternatives to Ministral 3B
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.10/1M | 131K | — | 5 | |
| $0.20/1M | 1.05M | 1608 | 45 | |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.30/1M | 1M | 1585 | 27 |
| $0.17/1M | 1.05M | — | 26 | |
| $0.294/1M | 1.05M | — | 26 | |
| $0.225/1M | 262K | — | 5 | |
| $0.20/1M | — | — | 2 | |
| $0.287/1M | 1M | — | 1 | |
| GPT OSS 120B | $0.14/1M | 131K | 1366 | 32 |
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Ministral 3B FAQ
The lowest price for Ministral 3B is $0.10 /1M, at Vercel AI Gateway.
Vercel AI Gateway, at $0.10 /1M. 5 providers serve Ministral 3B; the table above lists every one with its price.
Ministral 3B reads up to 131K tokens per request and writes up to 105K.
We have not found Ministral 3B's weights published by its maker.
5 API providers serve Ministral 3B. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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