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Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512): API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) is a language model from Mistral, released in December 2025, with multimodal input.

The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities. This model is the reasoning post-trained version, trained for reasoning tasks, making it ideal for math,

Input
TextImage
Output
Text

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

How Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) performs across real-world prompt categories.

Performance by conversation depth

How Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) pricing

Providers

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) starts at $0.100 per million input tokens and $0.100 per million output tokens via Mistral AI.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
Mistral AI logoMistral AI
$0.100$0.100131.1K/131.1K
0.16
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) model size

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) has 3 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

Parameters
3B
Small (3–10B)
3B
1B7B70B405B

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) context window

Input and output token limits for Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512), plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
131Ktokens
131Ktokens
197 pages of text
131K
8K128K1M

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) API

Available from the model provider

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) latency

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) examples

Recent arena outputs from Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512), picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) license

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 3.0B parameters.

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
3.0B

Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) resources

Official sources for Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512): api documentation, official playground, official launch post, model weights.

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) are Kimi-k1.5, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, GPT-4o. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512)

Models ranked just above and below Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) by LLM Stats score.

 

Kimi-k1.5

Score pending
 

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

Score pending
 

GPT-4o

Score pending
 

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Score pending
 

Phi 4 Reasoning

Score pending
 

QwQ-32B

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512).

When was Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) released?

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) was released on December 4, 2025 by Mistral. This is the official Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) cost?

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) pricing starts at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens via Mistral AI, the lowest price among tracked providers.

Is Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) available via API?

Yes, Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512)?

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) has 3 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512)?

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) was created by Mistral.

What is the license for Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512)?

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Is Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) multimodal?

Yes, Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

What is Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) latency?

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) p95 time to first token is 0.16 seconds via Mistral AI over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and API workloads.

Where can I use Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512)?

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) is available through 1 provider including Mistral AI.

Where is the Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) paper or technical report?

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) has a paper or technical report available at https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) against?

Common Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) comparisons include Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) vs Kimi-k1.5, Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) vs GPT-4o. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.