Mistral AI

Ministral 3B

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Intelligence Index

Ministral 3B de Mistral AI es un modelo de IA diseñado para máxima eficiencia de costos por token y alta velocidad en producción, con ventana de contexto de 128K, velocidad de 180 tokens/s, índice de inteligencia de 33/100 y tarifa de $0.04/$0.04 por 1M de tokens.

Technical Specifications

Provider
Mistral AI
Category
lightweight
Release Date
2024-10
Knowledge Cutoff
October 2024
Architecture
Ultra-Compact Dense Transformer
Parameters
3B
Context Window
128K tokens
Max Output
8K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0.02 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
50% off async batch
Consumer Subscription
API Pay-as-you-go
Reasoning Mode
No (Standard)
Reasoning Effort Control
Fixed
Tool Calling
Yes
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
No (Proprietary Cloud)
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text
Official Documentation
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Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
API payloads are excluded from model training by default
Model License & Commercial Rights
Proprietary Commercial API (Mistral AI Terms)
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Mistral AI Cloud API & Enterprise Endpoints
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
ministral-3b-latest
Supported SDK & API Protocol
Mistral AI REST API (OpenAI-Compatible)
Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
Legacy Stable (Upgrade path available in Mistral AI lineup)
Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
5,000 – 15,000 RPM (Production Tier) · 800,000 – 2,000,000 TPM
Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
Flat rate ($0.04/1M in) across full 128K window
Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
Cached input at $0.02/1M tokens
Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
API Prompt Engineering & RAG Distillation
Multimodal Tokenization Billing
Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
Weights Precision & Quantization
Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster)
Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
Supported Inference Engines
Managed Mistral AI Cloud API
System Card & Safety Framework
Mistral AI Production Safety & Alignment Verified
Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

Ministral 3B Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
$2.40$3.00
Monthly Savings: $0.60 (Caching/Batch)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

Pay-as-you-go API is cheaper for this volume (saves $17.60/mo vs $20 flat plan).

Break-even point: ~4,167 requests/day equals $20/month.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

Ministral 3B (Active)
$2.40
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Ministral 3B:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$14.10/mo
This model is already priced at or below the fast router baseline.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (35)Reasoning (37)Knowledge (50)Speed (100)Context (75)Cost Value (94)
Ministral 3B2026 Frontier Median
SWE-bench Verified
22.1%
GPQA Diamond
32.5%
MMLU-Pro
49.8%
HumanEval
72.4%
Humanity's Last Exam
2.4%
Terminal-Bench
14.8%
SciCode
15.2%
LiveCodeBench
24.5%
AIME
28.5%
Long-Context Reasoning
60.5%
Chatbot Arena Elo
1180pts

Strengths

  • Ventana de contexto de 128K con hasta 8K tokens de salida máxima (SWE-bench Verified 22.1% · GPQA Diamond 32.5%)
  • Rendimiento ágil de 180 tokens/segundo con latencia inicial (TTFT) de solo 210 ms
  • Economía de API competitiva ($0.04/$0.04 por 1M de tokens) con soporte para caché de prompts y salidas JSON estructuradas

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • Modelo propietario en la nube; no permite descargar los pesos para ejecución local sin conexión
  • En demostraciones científicas extremas, los modelos de razonamiento pesado de gama alta ofrecen mayor profundidad

Editorial Assessment

Con una puntuación de inteligencia de 33/100, contexto de 128K y 180 tok/s, Ministral 3B destaca como una opción sumamente sólida dentro del ecosistema de Mistral AI.

Best for: Ideal para máxima eficiencia de costos por token y alta velocidad en producción, sistemas RAG empresariales y automatización mediante API.

Frequently Asked Questions about Ministral 3B

How much does the Ministral 3B API cost per 1M tokens?+

Ministral 3B by Mistral AI is priced at $0.04 per 1M input tokens and $0.04 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0.02 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.

Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Ministral 3B pay-as-you-go API?+

A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.

How many words and pages fit in Ministral 3B's context window?+

Ministral 3B features a 128K tokens context window, which equals approximately 96,000 English words or ~256 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 8,192 tokens.

Can I run Ministral 3B locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

No, Ministral 3B is a proprietary closed-weights model hosted by Mistral AI. It cannot be downloaded for local GPU execution and must be accessed via Mistral AI's official API or cloud platform.

Does Mistral AI train on data sent to the Ministral 3B API, and is commercial use allowed?+

API payloads are excluded from model training by default. License tier: Proprietary Commercial API (Mistral AI Terms). Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Mistral AI Cloud API & Enterprise Endpoints.

How does Ministral 3B perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

Ministral 3B achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 33/100, scoring 22.1% on SWE-bench Verified, 32.5% on GPQA Diamond, 49.8% on MMLU-Pro, and 1180 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is Ministral 3B best used for?+

Ministral 3B is best suited for: Ideal para máxima eficiencia de costos por token y alta velocidad en producción, sistemas RAG empresariales y automatización mediante API.. Assessment: Con una puntuación de inteligencia de 33/100, contexto de 128K y 180 tok/s, Ministral 3B destaca como una opción sumamente sólida dentro del ecosistema de Mistral AI.

Las puntuaciones de benchmarks, precios por token y límites de tasa evolucionan rápidamente. Verifique siempre las especificaciones actuales en la documentación oficial del proveedor.

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