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.
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.
Cheapest of 6 routes · Microsoft Foundry