Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512
Mistral's Ministral 3 3B 2512 is a very small model with multimodal and tool use support at low cost, but its limited reasoning and coding performance make it suitable only for the simplest business tasks where budget is the overriding concern.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
Our methodology takes into account a range of factors including pricing, functionality, capabilities, benchmark performance, and real-world applicability. Rankings are reviewed and updated regularly as new models are released. Issues with our rankings? Contact us
Performance Profile
The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Mistral |
| Parameters | 3B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Intelligence
Technical
Content
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
How does Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 stack up?
Compare side-by-side with other efficient models.
Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
mistralai/ministral-3b-2512
|
| Provider | mistralai |
| Release Date | December 2, 2025 |
| Context Length | 131,072 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.10 | $0.000100 |
| Output | $0.10 | $0.000100 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
