Compact Mistral model for edge, latency-sensitive, and cost-efficient workloads
Ministral 3B by mistral is offered by 7 providers on this page. Its official list price is $0.04 per 1M tokens. The lowest paid channel is Azure at $0.04 / $0.04 per 1M, about 2.5× below the list price.
The context window is 131,072 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. 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 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.04 | $0.04 | — | — | 131,072 | 128,000 | |
| MistralOfficial ministral-3b-latest | First-party | $0.04 | $0.04 | — | — | 131,072 | 128,000 | |
| NanoGPT mistralai/ministral-3b-2512 | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.05 | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
| Pioneer | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.10 | 128,000 ⚠ | 4,000 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) ministral-3b-2512 | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.10 | — | — | 131,072 | 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) (2026-09-04). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.