Ministral 3 8B
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Editorial Analysis
Profile. Ministral 3 8B is a budget-tier option from Mistral at $0.15/M output tokens. Despite the low price, it scores competitively on Coding Index (9.7) and Intelligence Index (9.0) — making it a candidate for high-volume production workloads where unit cost dominates.
Latency. On latency, Ministral 3 8B reports 106 tok/s output speed and 760ms time-to-first-token. Output speed is in the normal range — most chat and completion applications will be token-bound, not streaming-bound.
Cost model. For a workload of 1M input tokens + 100K output tokens, Ministral 3 8B costs $0.16 per million input-equivalent requests. Multiply by your monthly request volume to project the bill, and compare against the speed/correctness profile above to decide if the trade-off is worth it for your workload.
Editorial summary generated from public pricing and benchmark data (Artificial Analysis API). All numbers are sourced — see the Artificial Analysis methodology for benchmark definitions. Last refreshed 2026-09-06.
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