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Ministral 3 8B

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Input
$0.15/M tok
Output
$0.15/M tok
Blended
$0.15/M tok · 3:1
Speed
87tok/s
Context
256Ktokens

Long-tail import from Artificial Analysis (2026-09-24); AA variant: Ministral 3 8B. Price = AA median host price.

Rankings

Self-hostingEstimated

How we estimate →

What it would cost to run these open weights yourself on rented GPUs, compared with the API price above.

Hardware
1× B200 180GB
BF16 weights
Throughput
~10,124 tok/s
many requests batched
Price
$0.083–0.74 /M tok
busy → light use
On your own machine
RTX 5090 32GB (int4, ~280 tok/s single-stream)
single consumer GPU or Mac
Assumptions (5)
  • BF16 weights (8.92B params) + 25% KV-cache headroom ≈ 22 GB
  • 1× B200 180GB at $5.98–$14.24/GPU-hour on-demand (2026-09-24)
  • ~10,124 output tok/s aggregate at batch 256 (bandwidth-bound)
  • Blended 3:1 input:output; prefill ~59,592 tok/s
  • Low = 75% utilization at the low GPU price; high = 20% at the high price

Benchmark scores

~ italic, dashed = no published score yet, estimated from related benchmarks.

Coding

SWE-bench Pro (Public)Estimated
~#18 of 19 (estimated)~45.2%
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.589.9%
  2. #2Claude Sonnet 5.581.3%
  3. #17Muse Glimmer51.2%
  4. ~#18Ministral 3 8BEstimated45.2%
  5. #18Nex-N2.5-Mini43.8%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
DeepSWE v1.1Estimated
~#29 of 31 (estimated)~37.0%
  1. #1DeepSeek V4.1 Flash74.2%
  2. #2Grok 4.772.6%
  3. #28Qwen3.8 27B42.2%
  4. ~#29Ministral 3 8BEstimated37.0%
  5. #29Nex-N2.5-Mini36.1%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
AA Coding Agent IndexEstimated
~last of 15 (estimated)below measured range (<41.1)
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.0
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.162.2
  3. #14GPT-6 Luna41.1
  4. ~#15Ministral 3 8BEstimated<41.1
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks

Writing & chat

MMMLUEstimated
~last of 5 (estimated)below measured range (<81.3%)
  1. #1Gemini 3.1 Pro92.6%
  2. #2Gemma 4 31B88.4%
  3. #4gpt-oss-120b81.3%
  4. ~#5Ministral 3 8BEstimated<81.3%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Text, Non-English (Elo)Estimated
~#46 of 54 (estimated)~1308 Elo
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51501
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.1Few votes1496
  3. #45Llama 4 Maverick1311
  4. ~#46Ministral 3 8BEstimated1308
  5. #46Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1Few votes1306
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Text (Elo)Estimated
~#46 of 54 (estimated)~1333 Elo
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51509
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.11501
  3. #45Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1Few votes1348
  4. ~#46Ministral 3 8BEstimated1333
  5. #46Olmo 3.1 32B Instruct1330
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3 (Elo)Estimated
~#24 of 26 (estimated)~1250 Elo
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra2173
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.12162
  3. #23Gemma 4 31B1368
  4. ~#24Ministral 3 8BEstimated1250
  5. #24gpt-oss-120b961
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks

Vision

MMMUEstimated
~#2 of 3 (estimated)~71.3%
  1. #1Claude Haiku 4.573.2%
  2. ~#2Ministral 3 8BEstimated71.3%
  3. #2Llama 4 Maverick69.4%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
CharXiv ReasoningEstimated
~last of 9 (estimated)below measured range (<74.5%)
  1. #1Gemini 3.8 Flash86.2%
  2. #2Kimi K384.8%
  3. #8Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite74.5%
  4. ~#9Ministral 3 8BEstimated<74.5%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
OmniDocBench v1.5Estimated
~last of 8 (estimated)below measured range (<75.8%)
  1. #1MiniMax-M391.6%
  2. #2Kimi K391.1%
  3. #7Muse Glimmer75.8%
  4. ~#8Ministral 3 8BEstimated<75.8%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
ChartographyEstimated
~last of 23 (estimated)below measured range (<9.0%)
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra71.0%
  2. #2Claude Opus 5.566.3%
  3. #22Mistral Large 39.0%
  4. ~#23Ministral 3 8BEstimated<9.0%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks

Hard reasoning

Agents

OSWorld-VerifiedEstimated
~#11 of 12 (estimated)~58.8%
  1. #1Kimi K384.8%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 27B84.3%
  3. #10Muse Glimmer65.9%
  4. ~#11Ministral 3 8BEstimated58.8%
  5. #11Claude Haiku 4.550.7%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
OSWorld 2.0Estimated
~last of 5 (estimated)below measured range (<47.5%)
  1. #1GLM-5.3 Flash59.1%
  2. #2Kimi K358.3%
  3. #4GPT-5.547.5%
  4. ~#5Ministral 3 8BEstimated<47.5%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
BrowseCompEstimated
~#16 of 18 (estimated)~46.6%
  1. #1Atria Dawn Preview92.5%
  2. #2GPT-6 Astra91.5%
  3. #15Mistral Medium 3.548.6%
  4. ~#16Ministral 3 8BEstimated46.6%
  5. #16Nemotron 3 Ultra44.4%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks