Ministral 3B: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Ministral 3B from Mistral AI is a recent or sparsely tested model with 1 benchmark result on record; it has not been measured on enough benchmarks shared with other models to receive an aggregate rank. This page lists every score we have, based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Mistral AI
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2024-10-16 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price: $0.040 in / $0.040 out per million tokens (via azure_ai, observed 2026-10-13T21:47Z)
Aggregate rank: Not ranked yet (too few shared benchmarks)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Ministral 3B is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

Its cheapest listed input price, $0.040 per million tokens, is lower than that of 94% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Ministral 3B benchmark results

Ministral 3B benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Epoch ECI	118	#137 of 204	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About Ministral 3B

Ministral 3B is a frontier model from Mistral AI. It was released on 2024-10-16, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.040 per million input tokens and $0.040 per million output tokens, through azure_ai. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Ministral 3B stands

Ministral 3B has 1 result so far and shares too few benchmarks with other models to get an aggregate rank. The rank will appear on its own once more scores are published.

Ministral 3B, benchmark by benchmark

Ministral 3B lands below the middle on Epoch ECI: 118, #137 of 204, with 67% of the field scoring higher. Qwen 3.8 Max leads at 156; the closest result above is Claude 3 Haiku at 118. It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Ministral 3B is 9 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Release history

The Mistral AI model released before it was mistral-small-2409 on 2024-09-17, which scores 46.3. The next one was ministral-3b-2410 on 2024-10-16, at 41.3.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.