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Model comparison

Ministral 3B vs Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 9.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Large 3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI

38.6

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Ministral 3B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large 3 in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Large 3 leads 35.5 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 7.3% for Ministral 3B and 14.5% for Mistral Large 3.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.75 for Mistral Large 3.
  • Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Ministral 3BMistral Large 3
ProviderMistral AIMistral AI
Noometry Index25.638.6
Released2024-10-012025-12-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K262K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.04$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.04$0.75
Results tracked624

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230)

BenchmarkMinistral 3BMistral Large 3
LMArena WebDev—1230
LMArena Coding—1447

Reasoning Ministral 3B leads

Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278), Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314)

BenchmarkMinistral 3BMistral Large 3
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—7.5%
Thematic Generalization—23%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1429
DTBench51.7%—
LMCA5.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index118.08—

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257), Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131)

BenchmarkMinistral 3BMistral Large 3
LMArena Math—1415
MATH Level 514.4%—

Knowledge Mistral Large 3 leads

Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297), Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173)

BenchmarkMinistral 3BMistral Large 3
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.3%14.5%
GPQA Diamond25.3%—
LMArena Expert—1421

Multimodal Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65)

BenchmarkMinistral 3BMistral Large 3
LMArena Vision—1222

Multilingual Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79)

BenchmarkMinistral 3BMistral Large 3
LMArena Non-English—1412
LMArena Chinese—1448
LMArena French—1456
LMArena German—1438
LMArena Japanese—1399
LMArena Korean—1384
LMArena Russian—1412
LMArena Spanish—1437

Instruction Following Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104)

BenchmarkMinistral 3BMistral Large 3
LMArena Instruction Following—1402

Long Context Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102)

BenchmarkMinistral 3BMistral Large 3
LMArena Longer Query—1413

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100)

BenchmarkMinistral 3BMistral Large 3
LMArena Text—1427
LMArena Creative Writing—1385
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1412
LMArena Multi-Turn—1429

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 3B better than Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 9.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Large 3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Ministral 3B or Mistral Large 3?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 3 lists at $0.25 and $0.75.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 3 does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 3B and Mistral Large 3 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Ministral 3B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.

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