Ministral 3 8B — pricing and what it's actually good for

Ministral 3 8B from Mistral AI. Released under Apache 2.0 per Mistral's models overview. Mistral publishes a 50% batch discount and up to 90% off cached input tokens. Context window and max output are not published on the models overview page and are recorded as unknown rather than taken from a third party.

Released: 2 Dec 2025
API identifier: ministral-3-8b

Pricing · per 1M tokens

Input$0.15

Output$0.15

Checked against Mistral API pricing on 7 Aug 2026, 11:51 UTC

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Customer Support Agents Content Writing

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Where Ministral 3 8B shows up in practice

The workflows where we shortlist Ministral 3 8B against the alternatives. Each page says why, at what price, and where a cheaper model does the job instead.

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Sources: Mistral API pricing · Mistral models overview

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