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Ministral 3B: API pricing, providers and specs

Textby MistralReleased Oct 16, 2024

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

Lowest price$0.10/1Mat Vercel AI Gateway
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers5
Context131KMax output 105K

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.

ProviderInputOutputPrompt cachingContext
Vercel AI Gateway$0.10/1M$0.10/1M$0.01/1M131K
OpenRouter$0.10/1MFrom$0.10/1M$0.01/1M131K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)$0.10/1MFrom$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—
Output price by provider, /1M, cheapest first
  1. Vercel AI Gateway$0.10
  2. OpenRouterFrom$0.10
  3. DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$0.10
  4. Cortecs$0.123
  5. AI/ML API$0.159
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.

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

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ModelLowest priceContextArenaProviders
Ministral 3Bthis model$0.10/1M131K—5
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Claude Haiku 5.5$0.30/1M1M158527
DeepSeek V4 Flash$0.17/1M1.05M—26
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp$0.294/1M1.05M—26
Ling 3.1 Flash$0.225/1M262K—5
Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct$0.20/1M——2
Qwen3.5 Flash$0.287/1M1M—1
GPT OSS 120B$0.14/1M131K136632

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