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Ministral 3 3BvsSonar
Ministral 3 3B and Sonar do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Ministral 3 3B is 10x cheaper per token. Ministral 3 3B has the larger context window (256K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Ministral 3 3B
10x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Ministral 3 3B
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Mistral AI · Perplexity
Ministral 3 3B
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-02
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 3 only Ministral 3 3B · 1 only Sonar| Benchmark | Ministral 3 3B | Sonar | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only Ministral 3 3B reports · 3 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 53.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 72.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 54.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Sonar reports · 1 | ||||
| SimpleQA F-score | not reported | 77.3% ↗ | — | — |
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 Ministral 3 3B minus Sonar 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 | Ministral 3 3B | Sonar | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 256K tokens | 128K tokens | Ministral 3 3B |
| Max output | — | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.1 ↗ | $1 ↗ | Ministral 3 3B |
| Output price / 1M | $0.1 ↗ | $1 ↗ | Ministral 3 3B |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.01 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.2 | $2 | Ministral 3 3B |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Ministral 3 3B |
| Released | 2025-12-02 | 2025-01-21 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 3 | 1 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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