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Atria Dawn Preview vs Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 16.5.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 16.5, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.15/M input and $0.15/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
16.5
#222
Reasoning
50.5
#12
16.6
#214
Coding
36.2
#22
9.0
#177
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
Input price
— / M
$0.15 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.15 / M
Context window
—
262,100

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 4 for Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

736.0B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 736.0B more parameters than Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512), making it 9200.0% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
Mistral AI
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)
8.0Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
8.0B
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) specifies input context (262,100 tokens). Only Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) specifies output context (262,100 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)
Input262,100 tokens
Output262,100 tokens
Fri Sep 18 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.

Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Atria Dawn Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) was released on 2025-12-04.

Atria Dawn Preview is 9 months newer than Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512).

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

1 weeks ago

9mo newer
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)

Dec 4, 2025

9 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Atria Dawn Preview
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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512).

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 16.5. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) is made by Mistral AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) scores AIME 2024: 86.0%, AIME 2025: 78.7%, GPQA: 66.8%, LiveCodeBench: 61.6%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) supports 262K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 16.5), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MIT vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) is developed by Mistral AI.

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