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Specifications
Context windowHow much text the model can hold in mind at once — your question, any documents you attach, the conversation so far, and its own reply. Go past it and the earliest part falls out of view.
1M—
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.
$2.00$0.15
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.
$10.00$0.15
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.
$0.10—
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.
$1.00Google AI Studio$0.15Mistral
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input.
$5.00Google AI Studio$0.15Mistral
$900Google list price$37.50Mistral list price
These models have no shared benchmark scores.
Overview
CompanyGoogleMistral
Release dateSep 30 2026Dec 2 2025
AccessClosedOpen Weight
Model detailsView modelView model

Frequently asked questions

Gemini 4 Argon and Ministral 3 8B-25-12 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Ministral 3 8B-25-12 is cheaper on both input and output: $0.15 vs $2.00 per million input tokens, and $0.15 vs $10.00 per million output tokens. Ministral 3 8B-25-12 shipped 302 days before Gemini 4 Argon, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Gemini 4 Argon is closed, while Ministral 3 8B-25-12 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemini 4 Argon and Ministral 3 8B-25-12 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.