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Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512

mistralai/ministral-3b-2512

↓ runs free on your own hardware⚙ tool calling

The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

specs & pricing
Type
text
Provider
mistralai
Model ID
mistralai/ministral-3b-2512
Capabilities
vision, tools
Context window
131K tokens
Self-hostable
Yes — runs on your own GPU
Input price
$0.11 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.11 / 1M tokens

Cloud price is billed from prepaid credits when a request fails over to the cloud. Open-weight models run free on GPUs you own — the gateway routes to your nodes first.

What it costs to run

cloud · 1M in + 1M out

$0.22

$0.11 for a million input tokens plus $0.11 for a million output tokens, billed from credits only when a request fails over to the cloud.

your hardware

$0 / token

Served from a workstation or on-prem server you own, there is no per-token fee — the marginal cost is power.

Run it on your own hardware

Estimated GPU memory for Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 (3.0B parameters), for the weights alone — add room for the context cache.

Q4_K_M
~2.5 GBfits a 8 GB card
Q8_0
~3.7 GBfits a 8 GB card
FP16 / BF16
~6.3 GBfits a 8 GB card

Install the agent on the machine and it dials out to the gateway over a single WebSocket — no port forwarding or inbound firewall rules. Requests for this model go to your node first and fail over to the cloud only when it can't serve.

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Call Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Serve it from hardware you own, with cloud failover when your nodes are busy or offline.

no credit card · 2 nodes free · openai-compatible

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512?
Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 accepts up to 131,072 tokens (131K) of context per request.
How much does Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 cost per million tokens?
Through Wide Area Intelligence, Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 costs $0.11 per 1M input tokens and $0.11 per 1M output tokens when served from the cloud, billed from prepaid credits. A workload of 1M input plus 1M output tokens costs $0.22.
Can I run Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 on my own hardware?
Yes — Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 is an open-weight model you can run on a workstation or on-prem server you own. At Q4_K_M it needs roughly 2.5 GB of GPU memory, plus room for the context cache — it fits a single 8 GB card. Wide Area Intelligence routes requests to your own nodes first and fails over to the cloud only when they can't serve.

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