Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

Ministral 3 8B 2512 is a text-and-image input model from Mistral AI with a 262,144-token context window and support for tool use. It does not support reasoning modes, and structured output support is unconfirmed. The absence of a stated completion token cap warrants checking with your API provider before committing to long-generation workflows. On price, the model sits at a flat $0.15 per million tokens for both input and output, which is competitive for multimodal workloads. The honest caveat is that no independent benchmark coverage exists yet, so there is no third-party performance data to anchor quality expectations. Buyers who prioritize low cost per token and a long context window for document or image tasks may find it worth testing, but teams that need verified benchmark standing before adoption should treat it as unproven and evaluate it against a scored alternative first.