# Ministral 3 3B

> Ministral 3 3B is an open-weight language model from Mistral AI, released on 2 Dec 2025. It accepts text and images and generates text, with a 256K-token context window and up to 8K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens (Amazon Bedrock), across 2 providers we track.

Source page: https://www.aimodel.directory/models/ministral-3-3b
Last verified: 4 Oct 2026

## Specifications

- **Developer:** Mistral AI
- **Release date:** 2 Dec 2025 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/mistral.ministral-3-3b-instruct.toml)
- **Status:** Generally available (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/mistral.ministral-3-3b-instruct.toml)
- **Weights:** Open weights (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512)
- **License:** apache-2.0 (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512)
- **Parameters:** 3.8B (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512)
- **Context window:** 256K (256,000 tokens) (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/mistral.ministral-3-3b-instruct.toml)
- **Max output:** 8K tokens (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/mistral.ministral-3-3b-instruct.toml)
- **Input:** Text and images (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/mistral.ministral-3-3b-instruct.toml)
- **Output:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/mistral.ministral-3-3b-instruct.toml)
- **Reasoning mode:** No (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/mistral.ministral-3-3b-instruct.toml)
- **Tool calling:** Yes (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/mistral.ministral-3-3b-instruct.toml)
- **Structured output:** Yes (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/mistral.ministral-3-3b-instruct.toml)
- **Hugging Face:** mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512)

## API pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.10 | $0.10 | – | 256K |
| OpenRouter | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.01 | 131K |

## FAQ

### What is the context window of Ministral 3 3B?

Ministral 3 3B has a context window of 256,000 tokens (256K) and can generate up to 8,192 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.

### How much does the Ministral 3 3B API cost?

Ministral 3 3B is listed from $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens (Amazon Bedrock). Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.

### Is Ministral 3 3B open source?

Ministral 3 3B is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 under the apache-2.0 license. Check the license terms before commercial use.

### When was Ministral 3 3B released?

Mistral AI released Ministral 3 3B on 2 Dec 2025, according to models.dev.

### Which providers offer Ministral 3 3B?

We track Ministral 3 3B on 2 providers: Amazon Bedrock, OpenRouter.

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