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Mistral: Ministral 3 3B

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Ministral 3 3B is a language model from Mistral released on Dec 2, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 256K token context window and up to 8K tokens per reply.

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It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens.

It supports tool calling and structured JSON output, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.

This is the same model as Ministral 3 3B, listed here under an earlier id. Prices and providers are kept current on that page.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.10 / $0.10 per 1M
Context
256K
Max output
8K
Released
Dec 2, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
  • Tool calling
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Prompt caching
  • Open weights
  • Free to use

Ministral 3 3B pricing

USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.

Input$0.10 / 1M tokens
Output$0.10 / 1M tokens

What Ministral 3 3B costs per month

Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.

Ministral 3 3B per month
$8.55
Without caching
$8.55
Per request
$0.0003

Supported request parameters

What you can set when you call Ministral 3 3B through an OpenAI compatible API.

  • Toolstools
  • Structured outputsstructured_outputs
  • Temperaturetemperature

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Ministral 3 3B questions

How much does the Ministral 3 3B API cost?

$0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.

What is the context window of Ministral 3 3B?

256,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 8,192 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.

Does Ministral 3 3B support tool calling?

Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.

Is Ministral 3 3B open source?

Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.

When was Ministral 3 3B released?

Dec 2, 2025.

Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.

Building on Ministral 3 3B?

I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.

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