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Ministral 3 8B 2512 benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Ministral 3 8B 2512, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 1, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 1, 2026

#84of 85

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 20 across 2 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Ministral 3 8B 2512

Artificial Analysis

#49of 51

Score 5.5. Best run: mistralai/ministral-8b-2512.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

Not measured by LiveBench.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#75of 79

Score 1237. Best run: ministral-8b-2410.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$0.15

OpenRouter: $0.15 in, $0.15 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $0.15 in, $0.15 out Context window 262K tokens.

Nearby

The models either side of Ministral 3 8B 2512

  1. #81amazon-nova-micro-v1.023
  2. #82gemma-3-4b-it22
  3. #83llama-3.2-3b-instruct20
  4. #84Ministral 3 8B 251220
  5. #85llama-3.2-1b-instruct18

Questions about Ministral 3 8B 2512

How good is Ministral 3 8B 2512?
Ministral 3 8B 2512 ranks #84 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 20 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is Ministral 3 8B 2512 better than llama-3.2-3b-instruct?
Not on the consensus: llama-3.2-3b-instruct scores 20 to Ministral 3 8B 2512's 20. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Ministral 3 8B 2512 better than llama-3.2-1b-instruct?
On the consensus, yes: 20 to 18.
How much does Ministral 3 8B 2512 cost?
$0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.15 per million.
Is Ministral 3 8B 2512 good for coding?
It scores 9.7 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #50 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.

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