Ministral 3 3B 2512 API Pricing
Mistral · context window 131K · prices updated 2026-09-15
Where Ministral 3 3B 2512 sits on price
At $0.1 per million output tokens, Ministral 3 3B 2512 is a budget tier model — 20.8× cheaper than the median output price of $2.08, which puts it in the cheapest 10% of everything we track. It sits 4th cheapest of the 25 Mistral models we track. Output is only 1.0× the input price, an unusually flat spread: long prompts hurt about as much as long answers, so prompt size is where the savings are.
Cached input is 90% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 28% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.
What real workloads cost on Ministral 3 3B 2512
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a budget-priced model — a $0.1/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill. | $0 | $252 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0001 | $1.95 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0004 | $105 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Ministral 3 3B 2512 with caching and batch options.
Ministral 3 3B 2512 price history
Ministral 3 3B 2512's price has not moved since we began tracking it on Aug 2, 2026 — 44 days of stability in a market where 78 of the 334 models we track have repriced over the same period, including 7 of Mistral's own 25 models.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Ministral 3 3B 2512 vs Gemma 3 4B
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Gemma 3 4B (Google) — priced within a rounding error on output, with $0.05 less per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See Gemma 3 4B pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Ministral 3 3B 2512 API cost?
Ministral 3 3B 2512 costs $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.1 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.01 per million (90% cheaper). That works out to roughly 10,000,000 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the high-volume classification workload cost on Ministral 3 3B 2512?
High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) costs about $0 per request and $252 per month on Ministral 3 3B 2512. Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill.
› What does it cost to fill Ministral 3 3B 2512's 131K context window?
Sending 131K of input in a single request costs $0.0131 at $0.1 per million tokens — before any output. With prompt caching that same fill drops to about $0.0013 on repeat requests. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Ministral 3 3B 2512 worth the price?
Ministral 3 3B 2512 is in the cheapest end of the market — cheaper than 99% of the models we track. At this price the question is not cost but capability: it is a good fit for classification, extraction, routing and bulk summarisation, and a poor fit for multi-step reasoning where a wrong answer costs more than the tokens saved.