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DeepSeek V3vsMinistral 3 8B
Ministral 3 8B leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Ministral 3 8B has the larger context window (256K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 2
Ministral 3 8B leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Ministral 3 8B
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
DeepSeek · Mistral AI
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek · released 2024-12-26
text
- Context
- 128K
- Max out
- 8K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 8 · 7 core
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-02
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 5 only DeepSeek V3 · 1 only Ministral 3 8B| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 | Ministral 3 8B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 59.1% ↗ | 66.8% ↗ | -7.7 pt | Ministral 3 8B |
| AIME 2025 | 25% ↗matharena | 78.7% ↗ | -53.7 pt | Ministral 3 8B |
| Only DeepSeek V3 reports · 5 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 42% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMLU | 88.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 75.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1332.4 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 15.8% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Ministral 3 8B reports · 1 | ||||
| LiveCodeBench | not reported | 61.6% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V3 minus Ministral 3 8B in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | DeepSeek V3 | Ministral 3 8B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128K tokens | 256K tokens | Ministral 3 8B |
| Max output | 8K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | — | $0.15 ↗ | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | $0.15 ↗ | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.015 ↗ | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | $0.3 | — |
| Modalities | text | text · vision | Ministral 3 8B |
| Released | 2024-12-26 | 2025-12-02 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 3 | — |
Reliability
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