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Ministral 3 3B 2512OPEN
Ministral 3 3B 2512 (Mistral AI): live API pricing, context window and the best open-source alternatives, tracked daily by OpenSourceAI.tech.
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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Ministral 3 3B 2512, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
For the same budget, Ministral 3 3B 2512 delivers 10 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
About this model
Ministral 3 3B 2512 is an open-weight AI model by Mistral AI. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Ministral 3 3B 2512?
Ministral 3 3B 2512 is an AI language model from Mistral AI. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 6.3 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Ministral 3 3B 2512 free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Ministral 3 3B 2512 and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.1 per million output tokens.
What is Ministral 3 3B 2512 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 30.1%, MMLU-Pro 52.4%, Humanity's Last Exam 5.3%, Long Context Reasoning 11.7%, LiveCodeBench 24.7%, SciCode 14.4%, MATH-500 80%, AIME 2025 22%, IFBench 24.1%, τ²-Bench 24.9%, τ-Bench Banking 4.7%, Terminal-Bench 0%, Terminal-Bench Hard 0%. It is particularly used for code generation.
How fast is Ministral 3 3B 2512?
It generates about 290.4 tokens per second, with a median 0.42s delay before the first token. Measured independently by Artificial Analysis.
Can I self-host Ministral 3 3B 2512?
Yes. Ministral 3 3B 2512 has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.
Open-source alternatives
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