Ministral 3 14B vs Ministral 3 3B. Price and specs.

For 10,000 requests of 2,000 tokens in and 500 out, Ministral 3 3B costs 50% less than Ministral 3 14B on Zurelay: $0.75 against $1.50. Both are below their labs' list prices: 70% for Ministral 3 14B and 70% for Ministral 3 3B.

Side by side

Specs and prices. Live.

Ministral 3 14B and Ministral 3 3B side by side
Ministral 3 14BMinistral 3 3B
LabMistral AIMistral AI
ReleasedDec 2, 2025Dec 2, 2025
Context window128K tokens128K tokens
Max output——
ReadsText, ImagesText, Images
Reasoning levelsNoneNone
Price per 1M, in / out$0.06 / $0.06$0.03 / $0.03
Lab list price$0.20 / $0.20$0.10 / $0.10
Cached input per 1M——
10K typical requests$1.50$0.75

Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens on Zurelay, live from the catalog. A typical request is 2,000 tokens in and 500 out. Output limits are each lab's.

What they're for

As each lab describes it.

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B is the largest model in Mistral AI's Ministral 3 family, released on December 2, 2025: an open-weight model that reads text and images and, by Mistral's account, performs comparably to its larger Mistral Small 3.2 24B. The Zurelay Ministral 3 14B API serves its instruct version through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint with a 131,072-token context window, at 70% below Mistral's list price.

  • Assistants and chat
  • Agent steps
  • Extraction from text and images
Ministral 3 14B API

Ministral 3 3B

Ministral 3 3B is the smallest model in Mistral AI's Ministral 3 family, released on December 2, 2025: an open-weight model that reads text and images, made for fast, low-cost work such as classification, extraction, translation and image captions. The Zurelay Ministral 3 3B API serves its instruct version through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint with a 131,072-token context window, at 70% below Mistral's list price.

  • Classification and routing
  • Extraction
  • Translation
Ministral 3 3B API

Try both

Test on your own prompts.

Specs don't say which model handles your work better. Send the same requests to both and compare the answers, the tokens and the bill. On Zurelay that's a change of model name.

To price a whole month, use the LLM cost calculator.

compare.py
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.zurelay.com/v1", api_key="YOUR_ZURELAY_KEY")
prompt = [{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this contract: ..."}]
# Same key, same code: only the model name changes
for model in ["ministral-3-14b", "ministral-3-3b"]:
reply = client.chat.completions.create(model=model, messages=prompt)
print(model, reply.usage.total_tokens, reply.choices[0].message.content[:200])

FAQ

Ministral 3 14B vs Ministral 3 3B questions.

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Is Ministral 3 14B or Ministral 3 3B cheaper?

For 10,000 requests of 2,000 tokens in and 500 out, Ministral 3 3B costs 50% less than Ministral 3 14B on Zurelay: $0.75 against $1.50. Per 1M tokens, Ministral 3 14B is $0.06 input and $0.06 output, and Ministral 3 3B is $0.03 and $0.03.

Which has the bigger context window?

They're the same on Zurelay: 128K tokens each.

Can I use Ministral 3 14B and Ministral 3 3B with one API key?

Yes. One Zurelay key calls both. With an OpenAI SDK, point it at https://api.zurelay.com/v1 and change only the model name, ministral-3-14b or ministral-3-3b, to switch.

Are these the real models?

Yes. Each model is served over several routes run by independent sellers, and every route is tested before it serves requests and every day after, with identity, dated-knowledge and reasoning checks that catch an older or different model sold under the name you asked for.

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