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| 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 third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. 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 third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input. | $0.15Mistral | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | SpaceXAI |
| Release date | Dec 2 2025 | Nov 3 2023 |
| Access | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Model details | View model | View model |
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Ministral 3 8B-25-12 and Grok‑1 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 Grok‑1. Grok‑1 shipped 760 days before Ministral 3 8B-25-12, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Ministral 3 8B-25-12 and Grok‑1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.