Mistral Ministral 3B
Mistral Ministral 3B is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Ministral
- Released
- 2025-12-01
- Parameters
- 3B
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10
- Openness
- Proprietary
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 6 routes · Microsoft Foundry
About
Mistral Ministral 3B is MistralAI's Ministral model. Its knowledge cutoff is 2023-10.
Mistral Ministral 3B is a proprietary model in the Ministral family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, Vercel AI Gateway, and 3 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.04 input and $0.04 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Mistral Ministral 3B yet.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 6Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.040 | $0.040 | Serverless |
| AWS Bedrock | $0.100 | $0.100 | Serverless |
| Mistral AI Studio | $0.100 | $0.100 | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.100 | $0.100 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(14)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing
RouterAWS Bedrock's native intelligent prompt router that routes prompts between Anthropic Claude model tiers (Haiku/Sonnet) based on predicted task complexity, with no extra per-routing charge.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Mistral Ministral 3B cost?
Mistral Ministral 3B pricing ranges from $0.04/1M to $0.15/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was Mistral Ministral 3B released?
Mistral Ministral 3B was released on 2025-12-01.
Which providers offer Mistral Ministral 3B?
Mistral Ministral 3B is available from 6 providers: AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, Vercel AI Gateway, Mistral AI Studio, Inceptron, NextBit.
Cheapest of 6 routes · Microsoft Foundry