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Ministral 8B
mistral·mistral/ministral-8b-2512·GA·Open weights·ministral series
Compact Mistral model for edge, latency-sensitive, and cost-efficient workloads
At a glance
Reference price$0.15 / $0.15 per 1M
Cache read — · DevPass (LLM Gateway)
Lowest paid$0.11 / $0.11
OpenRouter Gateway · 1.4× spread
Context262,144
⚠ Providers report 128,000–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit8,192
Capabilities
ReasoningTool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2024-09-30
Released / updated2025-12-04 / 2025-12-04
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 3 providers3 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter mistralai/ministral-8b | Gateway | $0.11 | $0.11 | — | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 128,000 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.15 | $0.075 | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.15 | — | — | 262,144 | 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.
Your usage cost
1OpenRouter$27.50
2NanoGPT$28.50
3DevPass (LLM Gateway)$37.50
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended