mistralai/ministral-3-3b vs mistralai/mistral-nemo
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, mistralai/mistral-nemo is cheaper: $7.30 a month at OpenRouter, against $25.00 for mistralai/ministral-3-3b at Mistral AI — 3.4× the cost.
Cheapest on each
mistralai/ministral-3-3b
$25.00/mo
cheapest, at Mistral AI — $0.1 in, $0.1 out per million
mistralai/mistral-nemo
$7.30/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.029 in, $0.03 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | mistralai/ministral-3-3b | mistralai/mistral-nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | ○ no answer | 131K |
| Accepts | ○ no answer | Aa |
| Sellers | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest input rate | $0.1 / M | $0.029 / M |
| Cached input rate | $0.01 / M | ○ no answer |
No quality or benchmark row appears here. We hold no throughput or accuracy measurement for either model, and a cost-per-quality figure built from a lab’s own claim would look authoritative and mean nothing.
Cost for this workload — both models, every seller
100,000 calls a month · 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each. Sellers of both models lead, cheapest combined cost first.
| Seller | mistralai/ministral-3-3b /mo | mistralai/mistral-nemo /mo |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral AI | $25.002026-10-22JSON | ○ no answer |
| OpenRouter | ○ no answer | $7.302026-10-27 |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.