Compact Mistral model for edge, latency-sensitive, and cost-efficient workloads
Ministral 3 14B by mistral is offered by 3 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 2 of them. Its reference price is $0.20 per 1M tokens. The lowest paid channel is NanoGPT at $0.10 / $0.40 per 1M, about 2.0× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 262,144 tokens, with an output limit of 128,000 tokens. It supports tool use. Accepted input modalities are Text and Image. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | First-party | Free | — | — | 262,144 | 16,384 | ||
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.05 | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| DigitalOcean mistral-3-14B | Cloud | $0.20 | $0.20 | — | — | 262,144 | 128,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
1 more channels offer $0 (Nvidia); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.