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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 API Pricing
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs $0.150 per 1M input tokens and $0.150 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.015). Context window: 262K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.150
Output / 1M tokens
$0.150
Context window
262K
Max output
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What would Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $1.80 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $7.50 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $20.25 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $6.30 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Mistral: 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.
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