Compact open vision-language model for edge deployment, instruction following, and tool use
Ministral 3 8B by mistral is offered by 4 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 3 of them. Its official list price is $0.15 per 1M tokens. No paid channel is priced below the official list price.
Artificial Analysis rates it 5.5 on the Intelligence Index, with 9.7 for coding and 0.6 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.15 per 1M, that is roughly 37 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 93 tokens per second, with 0.76s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.0111, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
The context window is 262,144 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 128,000 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MistralOfficial ministral-8b-2512 | First-party | $0.15 | $0.15 | $0.015 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| Amazon Bedrock mistral.ministral-3-8b-instruct | Cloud | $0.15 | $0.15 | — | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 4,096 | |
| LowRouter auto/mistralai/ministral-8b-2512 | Gateway | $0.16 | $0.16 | $0.016 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| DigitalOcean | Cloud | — | — | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | hostTable.undisclosed |
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.