Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512): API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) is a language model from Mistral, released in December 2025, with multimodal input.
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B 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,
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
How Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) performs across real-world prompt categories.
Performance by conversation depth
How Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) holds up as conversations get longer.
Quality Tracker
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Mon Aug 24 2026Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) pricing
Providers
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) starts at $0.150 per million input tokens and $0.150 per million output tokens via Mistral AI.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mistral AI | $0.150 | — | $0.150 | 262.1K/262.1K | 0.34 | — | / |
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.
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) model size
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) has 8 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) context window
Input and output token limits for Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512), plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) API
Available from the model provider
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.
Read the official API documentationMinistral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) latency
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) examples
Recent arena outputs from Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512), picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) license
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 8.0B parameters.
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use allowed
- Parameters
- 8.0B
Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) resources
Official sources for Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512): api documentation, official playground, official launch post, model weights.
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) are o1-pro, MiMo-V2.5-Pro, Phi 4 Reasoning Plus. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
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Models ranked just above and below Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512).