As of August 25, 2026, Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) API pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens. A typical 100K-in / 20K-out request costs $0.01. Source: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
Source: OpenRouter pricing (https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models)
Input $/M
$0.10
Output $/M
$0.10
Blended / 1M
$0.20
100K / 20K request
$0.01
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MATH against blended input+output $/M. Log price. Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) is the green point.
| Context Window | 131.1K |
|---|---|
| Max Output | N/A |
| Release Date | 2025-12-04 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | N/A |
| License | Open Source |
| Throughput | N/A |
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As of August 25, 2026, Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) Mistral API pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens via OpenRouter. Input tokens are the prompt you send; output tokens are the completion. Long answers therefore cost more than short ones even when the prompt stays the same. Source: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
On this page the blended Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) API cost is $0.20 for 1 million input tokens plus 1 million output tokens. That 1:1 mix is the comparison scale used across the LLM pricing table. A 3:1 mix (three million input tokens per one million output tokens), which some calculators use, would be about $0.40.
A typical Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) API request with 100K input tokens and 20K output tokens costs about $0.01 at current rates as of August 25, 2026. Multiply that by daily or monthly volume to estimate spend. Caching, batch APIs, and volume discounts from OpenRouter can bring the real invoice lower than the public list rate at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models.
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) supports a 131K token context window. The context window is the total prompt plus conversation history the model can see in one call. Larger windows cost more when you fill them, because every input token is billed per million tokens.
Yes. Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) is an open-weight model by Mistral. You can download the weights and self-host, or pay OpenRouter's hosted API and skip GPU ops. Hosted API pricing on this page is the public per-million-token rate, not the electricity cost of running the weights yourself.
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) currently reports MATH 83%, Wild Bench 56.8%, Arena-Hard 30.5%. See the performance table for the full eval set. Use those scores with the token prices above when you are choosing between a cheaper LLM and a frontier model. GPQA, SWE-bench, and HLE are the evals people usually compare first.
Use the Compare picker on this page to start an LLM comparison. Search by model or provider, pick a second model, and AnotherWrapper opens a dedicated Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) vs page with per-million-token prices, blended 1M-in / 1M-out cost, context window, throughput, and benchmarks. You can also open any model from the sidebar, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort the full index.
The cheapest LLM alternative depends on whether you optimize for blended token cost, coding evals, or context window. Start with the popular matchups on this page, then sort the LLM pricing table by blended cost to see which hosted APIs undercut Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512). Open-weight models can be cheaper still if you self-host, but that is not the same as Mistral API pricing on this page.
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) is called through OpenRouter's API with an API key. Bill against input and output tokens separately; cache or shorten prompts if spend is high. If you are shipping a full product, AnotherWrapper includes pre-built API routes and templates for OpenRouter and 5+ other providers with auth, payments, and deployment already configured.
This Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) page tracks the latest published Mistral API pricing from OpenRouter, quoted per million tokens. List rates can differ from invoices because of prompt caching, batch discounts, committed-use tiers, and private contracts. Official rate sheet: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models. Benchmark scores come from official publications and independent evals, not from a private lab run by AnotherWrapper.
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) is a open-source model from Mistral. Current API pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens, with a 131.1K token context window. A blended 1M-in / 1M-out workload costs $0.20.
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