Compact open vision-language model for edge deployment, instruction following, and tool use
Ministral 3 3B by mistral is currently listed from a single provider. Its reference price is $0.10 per 1M tokens.
Artificial Analysis rates it 4.8 on the Intelligence Index, with 4.8 for coding and 0.8 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.10 per 1M, that is roughly 48 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 209 tokens per second, with 0.66s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.0423, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
The context window is 256,000 tokens, with an output limit of 8,192 tokens. It supports tool use and structured output. 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.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock mistral.ministral-3-3b-instruct | Cloud | $0.10 | $0.10 | — | — | 256,000 | 8,192 |
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.
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-09-12). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.