MistralFastReleased 2 December 2025
Ministral 3 8B 2512 pricing, context and benchmark
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
262K
Input context
210K
Output context
$0.15
Official input
$0.15
Official output
n/a
AA index
01 · Model Overview
Everything that matters, in one table
Context, pricing, cache, modalities and tooling, from the model registry and Artificial Analysis.
| Model | Ministral 3 8B 2512 |
| Model ID | mistralai/ministral-8b-2512 |
| Provider | Mistral |
| Release date | 2 December 2025 |
| Status | Generally available |
| Input context | 262,144 tokens |
| Output context | 209,715 tokens |
| Official input pricing | $0.15 per 1M tokens |
| Official output pricing | $0.15 per 1M tokens |
| Cache read pricing | Not published |
| Market input pricing | $0.15 per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Market output pricing | $0.15 per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Highest route pricing | $0.165 in, $0.165 out per 1M |
| Input modalities | text · image |
| Output modalities | text |
| Reasoning control | Not exposed |
| Tool support | Text generation only |
| Tokenizer | Mistral |
| Provider routes | 2 endpoints |
| Artificial Analysis index | Not published |
| Speed | Not published |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not publicly stated |
Input and output support
| Modality | Input | Output | Billed at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text | ✓ yes | ✓ yes | $0.15 in |
| Image | ✓ yes | no | $0.15 in |
| Audio | no | no | not supported |
| Video | no | no | not supported |
| File (PDF) | no | no | not supported |
02 · Overview
What is Ministral 3 8B 2512?
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
Ministral 3 8B 2512 carries a 262K token window, uses the Mistral tokenizer and is served by Mistral. On Hoodgen it sits in the Fast tier of the model menu next to its siblings, so you can switch mid conversation without losing the thread.
03 · Release
Release and what changed from the previous version
Released2 December 2025
| Property | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Released | 2025 | 2025 | Same release window |
| Context | 262K | 262K | Unchanged |
| Max output | 210K | 210K | Unchanged |
| Input price | $0.5 | $0.15 | Cheaper |
| Output price | $1.5 | $0.15 | Cheaper |
| Input modalities | text, image, file | text, image | Unchanged |
| AA index | n/a | n/a | Newer benchmark run |
04 · Capabilities
Features and capabilities
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Vision
Screenshots, charts and photographed documents are read at the text token rate.
07 · Use cases
What can you do with Ministral 3 8B 2512?
High volume drafts
Captions, titles, product blurbs and rewrite passes where cost per call dominates.
Inline assistants
Autocomplete, quick replies and menu helpers that must answer inside a second.
Batch classification
Tagging, routing and extraction across thousands of short inputs.
Cheap agent loops
Tool calling loops that do not need frontier grade reasoning.
09 · Pricing
Ministral 3 8B 2512 pricing
Official pricing
List price
$0.15 / 1M in
$0.15 / 1M out
- 262K context
- text, image input
Cheapest route
$0.15 / 1M in
$0.15 / 1M out
- 2 routes on OpenRouter
- What Hoodgen routes to first
- Same model, lower bill
Highest route
$0.165 / 1M in
$0.165 / 1M out
- Priority or premium tier
- Best under load
- Use for latency critical calls
Market pricing, every route
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral | standard | $0.15 | $0.15 | $0.015 | 100.0% |
| Mistral | standard | $0.165 | $0.165 | $0.016 | 99.7% |
API pricing and cost calculator
| Rate | Per call | Total | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $0.0016 | $0.80 | 763 |
| List price | $0.0032 | $1.61 | 1532 |
| Highest route | $0.0035 | $1.77 | 1686 |
10 · Developers
API and developer information
| Model ID | mistralai/ministral-8b-2512 |
| Endpoint | https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions |
| Parameters | prompt and max_tokens |
| Streaming | Yes, server sent events |
| Modality string | text+image->text |
| Max prompt tokens | 262,144 |
| Max completion tokens | 209,715 |
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistralai/ministral-8b-2512",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarise this document." }],
"max_tokens": 1024
}'11 · Limitations
Model limitations
| Text only output | It cannot generate images, audio or video. Pair it with an image model on Hoodgen when you need visuals. |
| Output cap | 209,715 tokens per request. Long deliverables have to be chunked. |
| Benchmarks not published | Artificial Analysis does not publish an Intelligence Index for this release, so no benchmark score is claimed here. |
| Knowledge cutoff | The provider does not state a fixed cutoff for every release. Verify very recent events against search. |
| Depth ceiling | Fast tier: strong on throughput, weaker than flagship tiers on long multi step reasoning. |
12 · Comparison
Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs other Mistral models
| Model | Context | Input /1M | Output /1M | AA index | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ministral 3 8B 2512 | 262K | $0.15 | $0.15 | n/a | 2025 |
| Mistral Large 3 2512 | 262K | $0.5 | $1.5 | n/a | 2025 |
| Devstral 2 2512 | 262K | $0.4 | $2 | n/a | 2025 |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | 131K | $0.4 | $2 | n/a | 2025 |
13 · Privacy
Privacy and data policy
- On Hoodgen, prompts and attachments answer that request and stay in your conversation history so you can reopen it. They are not used to train models.
- Requests route through OpenRouter to Mistral and are covered by that provider's API terms.
- Do not paste secrets or personal data you would not send to any hosted model.
14 · FAQ
Ministral 3 8B 2512 questions, answered
Ministral 3 8B 2512 is a fast model from Mistral, released 2 December 2025. A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
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