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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Measured against all 371 chat models CoreAI serves, Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) sits at #146 for context capacity — 262K tokens, roughly 196,608 words or 393 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #75 cheapest of 120 budget-tier models by input cost. It joined the catalog on 2025-12-02. It accepts image input alongside text.
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A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00022 on Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)'s raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.008. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) handles 262K tokens of context — roughly 196,608 words, or about 393 pages of text in one conversation.
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)'s underlying rates are $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
Yes — Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) accepts image input, so you can attach screenshots, photos or diagrams and ask questions about them.
No — Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch) answers directly without an extended reasoning phase, which usually means faster responses.
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The closest alternatives on CoreAI are Mistral: Mistral Small 4, Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next, IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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