Ministral 8B: API pricing, providers and specs
Ministral 8B is a text model by Mistral. 5 providers serve it, from $0.143 to $0.18 /1M; the lowest price is at AI/ML API.
A newer version is out: Ministral 14B · released Dec 2, 2025
How Ministral 8B compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.143 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 89% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 262K-token context window is larger than 45% of them (median 262K), about 390 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #107 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 5 providers serve it; 65% of comparable models have fewer.
Ministral 8B 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI/ML API | $0.143/1M | $0.143/1M | $0.016/1M | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.15/1M | $0.15/1M | $0.015/1M | 262K |
| OpenRouter | $0.15/1M | From$0.15/1M | $0.015/1M | 262K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.15/1M | From$0.15/1M | — | — |
 Cortecs | $0.18/1M | $0.18/1M | — | — |
- AI/ML API$0.143
- Vercel AI Gateway$0.15
- OpenRouterFrom$0.15
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$0.15
- Cortecs$0.18
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Mistral
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 262K≈ 390 pages of text
- Max output
- 210K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Oct 16, 2024
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Arena score
- 1191Text
- Monthly searches
- 340
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The lowest price for Ministral 8B is $0.143 /1M, at AI/ML API.
AI/ML API, at $0.143 /1M. 5 providers serve Ministral 8B; the table above lists every one with its price.
Ministral 8B reads up to 262K tokens per request and writes up to 210K.
We have not found Ministral 8B's weights published by its maker.
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