Compact Mistral model for edge, latency-sensitive, and cost-efficient workloads
Ministral 3B by mistral is offered by 4 providers on this page. Its reference price is $0.10 per 1M tokens. The lowest paid channel is Azure at $0.04 / $0.04 per 1M, about 2.5× below the reference price.
The context window is 128,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 128,000 to 131,072, 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. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-03.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure | Cloud | $0.04 | $0.04 | — | — | 128,000 | 8,192 | |
| Azure Cognitive Services | Cloud | $0.04 | $0.04 | — | — | 128,000 | 8,192 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) ministral-3b-2512 | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.10 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| Pioneer | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.10 | 128,000 | 4,000 |
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.