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Mistral AI

Ministral 3 3B (Instruct)

VS
Mistral AI

Mistral Large 3

✍️ Analysis by:the whichllmmodel Editorial Team|📅 Updated: June 2026

Decision Recommendation

⚖️ Editorial Verdict: In our analysis, Mistral Large 3 is the premium intelligence choice, scoring 0.0% higher on coding benchmarks. However, this accuracy premium comes with a cost overhead: Ministral 3 3B (Instruct) is 7.5x cheaper to run. If you are building high-volume, simple chatbots or processing massive amounts of text where budget is critical, Ministral 3 3B (Instruct) offers excellent cost savings. For agentic reasoning, code refactoring, or complex logical tasks, the accuracy premium of Mistral Large 3 fully justifies the cost.

Model Specs

Ministral 3 3B (Instruct)

Benchmarks & Scores

Coding (swe-bench-pro)
N/A
Reasoning (gpqa-diamond)
N/A

Cost & Performance

Cost (per 1M tokens)7.5x cheaper
$0.10Input: $0.10 | Output: $0.10
Context Window
262.14k tokens
Model Specs

Mistral Large 3

Benchmarks & Scores

Coding (swe-bench-pro)
N/A
Reasoning (gpqa-diamond)Winner (+)
85.5%

Cost & Performance

Cost (per 1M tokens)
$0.75Input: $0.50 | Output: $1.50
Context Window
262.14k tokens

Frequently Asked Questions

Ministral 3 3B (Instruct) is cheaper than Mistral Large 3. Ministral 3 3B (Instruct) has a blended cost of $0.10/1M tokens, which is about 7.5x cheaper than Mistral Large 3 at $0.75/1M tokens.

Coding benchmark scores are not currently recorded for these models.

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