Model comparison
Codestral 2508 vs Ministral 3 3B 2512
Compare Codestral 2508 and Ministral 3 3B 2512: input/output $/Mtoken, context window, modalities, and license. OpenRouter-synced pricing.
Mistral
Codestral 2508
Mistral's cutting-edge language model for coding released end of July 2025. Codestral specializes in low-latency, high-frequency tasks such as fill-in-the-middle (FIM), code correc
Mistral
Ministral 3 3B 2512
The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
| Metric | Codestral 2508 | Ministral 3 3B 2512 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral | Mistral |
| Context window | 256,000 | 131,072 |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.300 | $0.100 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.900 | $0.100 |
| Modalities | text | text, vision |
| License | open-weights | open-weights |
Quick take
On input price, Ministral 3 3B 2512 is cheaper at $0.100/Mtok. For context window, Codestral 2508 leads with 256,000 tokens.
Pick based on your workload: high-volume cheap inference vs long-document / agent loops. Enterprise DNA can wire either model into Omni with evals, secrets, and job orchestration.