> Ministral 3B is a closed AI model from Mistral, released 16 Oct 2024. Index score 90 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 201 of 229 ranked models.

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# Ministral 3B

Mistral

Released 16 Oct 2024

Closed

Small / fast

Date verified

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/ministral-3b-vs-qwen2-5/) [Announcement](https://mistral.ai/news/ministraux/)

9077–104

Index score

#201 of 229 models

1/ 8

Core tests taken

1 of 6 areas · plus 3 anchor tests

−32

Versus the frontier at release

best then: o1-mini

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Price per million tokens

no public API price found

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Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

GPT-4 reached this score 19 months earlier.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Show 3 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

25%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

evidence

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

The Model Index

independent tests, our method

#201

of 219 · 90

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#175

of 239 · 118.1

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Where to use it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### From the lab

Le Chat

app · subscription

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Mistral API

API

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Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

16 Oct 2024

Announcement

[mistral.ai ↗](https://mistral.ai/news/ministraux/)

Release entry

Ministral 3B/8B

Scored as

Ministral 3B

Artificial Analysis index

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Output speed

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Hugging Face

closed weights

## Mistral releases · around this one

Mistral Large 2

Open

24 JUL 2024

index 107

Pixtral 12B

Open

11 SEP 2024

Ministral 3B

Closed

16 OCT 2024

index 90

Ministral 8B

Open

16 OCT 2024

index 90

Mistral Small 3

Open

30 JAN 2025

index 106

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/ministral-3b/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01