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Ministral 3 8Bvso3
o3 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Ministral 3 8B is 33.3x cheaper per token. 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
o3 leads
Cheaper per token
Ministral 3 8B
33.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Ministral 3 8B
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 94.2446%
Mistral AI · OpenAI
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI · released 2025-12-02
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 1 only Ministral 3 8B · 5 only o3| Benchmark | Ministral 3 8B | o3 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 66.8% ↗ | 81.8% ↗epoch | -15 pt | o3 |
| AIME 2025 | 78.7% ↗ | 89.2% ↗matharena ⚠ | -10.5 pt | o3 |
| Only Ministral 3 8B reports · 1 | ||||
| LiveCodeBench | 61.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only o3 reports · 5 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 69.1% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 33.3% ↗epoch | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 84.4% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 49.4% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 62.3% ↗epoch | — | — |
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 8B minus o3 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 8B | o3 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 256K tokens | 200K tokens | Ministral 3 8B |
| Max output | — | 100K tokens | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.15 ↗ | $2 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Output price / 1M | $0.15 ↗ | $8 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.015 ↗ | $0.5 ↗ | Ministral 3 8B |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.3 | $10 | Ministral 3 8B |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-12-02 | 2025-04-16 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 3 | 7 | — |
Reliability
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