Mistral: Ministral 3B
Ministral 3B is a language model from Mistral released on Oct 1, 2024. It reads text and writes text, with a 128K token context window and up to 4K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
5 providers serve it, including Azure, Vercel AI Gateway and Azure Cognitive Services.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.04 / $0.04 per 1M
- Context
- 128K
- Max output
- 4K
- Released
- Oct 1, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Mar 2024
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Ministral 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 | $0.04 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.04 / 1M tokens |
Ministral 3B providers
5 providers serve it, including Azure, Vercel AI Gateway and Azure Cognitive Services. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral First party | $0.04 | $0.04 | – | 131K | 128K |
| Azure | $0.04 | $0.04 | – | 128K | 8K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.04 | $0.04 | – | 131K | 128K |
| Azure Cognitive Services | $0.04 | $0.04 | – | 128K | 8K |
| Pioneer | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.10 | 128K | 4K |
What Ministral 3B costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Ministral 3B through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
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Ministral 3B questions
How much does the Ministral 3B API cost?
$0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 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 3B?
128,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 4,000 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Ministral 3B?
5 providers serve it, including Azure, Vercel AI Gateway and Azure Cognitive Services. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Ministral 3B support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Ministral 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 3B released?
Oct 1, 2024, with training data up to Mar 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.