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Specifications
ParametersThe learned values that shape how a model responds. B means billion and T means trillion. For mixture-of-experts models, the total count is larger than the number active for each token. Parameter count alone does not measure quality.
—8B
Context windowHow much information the model can work with in one request, measured in tokens — pieces of words or other data. This includes your question, attachments, conversation and reply. Limits can vary by model variant and provider.
1M128k
API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
$3.00—
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
$15.00—
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again.
$0.30—
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page.
$3.00Amazon Bedrock—
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input.
$15.00Amazon Bedrock—
$1,350Anthropic list price—
These models have no shared benchmark scores.
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateFeb 17 2026Oct 16 2024
AccessClosedOpen Weight
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Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Ministral 8B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a verified first-party API price: $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Ministral 8B. Ministral 8B shipped 489 days before Claude Sonnet 4.6, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Context windows are 1M (Claude Sonnet 4.6) vs 128k (Ministral 8B). Claude Sonnet 4.6 is closed, while Ministral 8B is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Ministral 8B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.