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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 | 3B |
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. | 1M | 256k |
| 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. | — | $0.10 |
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. | — | $0.10 |
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. | — | $0.10Mistral |
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input. | — | $0.10Mistral |
| — | $25.00Mistral list price | |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | |
| Release date | Oct 3 2024 | Dec 2 2025 |
| Access | Closed | Open Weight |
| Model details | View model | View model |
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Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B and Ministral 3 3B-25-12 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Ministral 3 3B-25-12 has a verified first-party API price: $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B. Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B shipped 425 days before Ministral 3 3B-25-12, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B has 8B parameters, while Ministral 3 3B-25-12 has 3B. Context windows are 1M (Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B) vs 256k (Ministral 3 3B-25-12). Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is closed, while Ministral 3 3B-25-12 is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B and Ministral 3 3B-25-12 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.