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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 | 0.5B/1.5B/7B/57B/72B |
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. | 256k | 128k |
| 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. | $0.15 | — |
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. | $0.15 | — |
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. | $0.15Mistral | — |
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input. | $0.15Mistral | — |
| $37.50Mistral list price | — | |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | Qwen |
| Release date | Dec 2 2025 | Jun 6 2024 |
| Access | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Model details | View model | View model |
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Ministral 3 8B-25-12 and Qwen2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Ministral 3 8B-25-12 has a verified first-party API price: $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Qwen2. Qwen2 shipped 544 days before Ministral 3 8B-25-12, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Ministral 3 8B-25-12 has 8B parameters, while Qwen2 has 0.5B/1.5B/7B/57B/72B. Context windows are 256k (Ministral 3 8B-25-12) vs 128k (Qwen2).
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Ministral 3 8B-25-12 and Qwen2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.