For 10,000 requests of 2,000 tokens in and 500 out, Ministral 3 14B costs 40% less than Qwen 3.8 Flash on Zurelay: $1.50 against $2.50. Both are below their labs' list prices: 70% for Ministral 3 14B and 53% for Qwen 3.8 Flash.
Side by side
| Ministral 3 14B | Qwen 3.8 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Lab | Mistral AI | Alibaba |
| Released | Dec 2, 2025 | Aug 26, 2026 |
| Context window | 128K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | — | 128K tokens |
| Reads | Text, Images | Text, Images, PDFs, Video |
| Reasoning levels | None | none, low, medium, xhigh |
| Price per 1M, in / out | $0.06 / $0.06 | $0.07 / $0.22 |
| Lab list price | $0.20 / $0.20 | $0.15 / $0.47 |
| Cached input per 1M | — | $0.007 |
| 10K typical requests | $1.50 | $2.50 |
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
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.
Qwen 3.8 Flash is Alibaba's fast, low-cost Qwen 3.8 model, a 125B-parameter mixture-of-experts with only 6B active per token and a 1M-token context window. The Zurelay Qwen 3.8 Flash API serves it through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint at 53% below Alibaba's international list price, for coding helpers, agents and high-volume pipelines.
Try both
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.
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from openai import OpenAIclient = 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 changesfor model in ["ministral-3-14b", "qwen3.8-flash"]: reply = client.chat.completions.create(model=model, messages=prompt) print(model, reply.usage.total_tokens, reply.choices[0].message.content[:200])FAQ
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For 10,000 requests of 2,000 tokens in and 500 out, Ministral 3 14B costs 40% less than Qwen 3.8 Flash on Zurelay: $1.50 against $2.50. Per 1M tokens, Ministral 3 14B is $0.06 input and $0.06 output, and Qwen 3.8 Flash is $0.07 and $0.22.
Qwen 3.8 Flash, at 1M tokens, against 128K for Ministral 3 14B.
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 qwen3.8-flash, to switch.
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.
Create a key in seconds, point the SDK you already use at Zurelay, and every request costs up to 90% less from the first token.