Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Ministral 3 8B 2512 at $0.172 in and $0.172 out and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 at $0.103 in and $0.632 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Ministral 3 8B 2512

Mistral AI

0.1¢

for a client proposal

$0.172 in · $0.172 out / 1M

262K context · released December 2025

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Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Qwen

0.1¢

for a client proposal

$0.103 in · $0.632 out / 1M

262K context · released July 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.2¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 at $0.103 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Ministral 3 8B 2512 at $0.172 per million tokens.
Identical context windows: 262K tokens each.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Ministral 3 8B 2512

0.04¢

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

0.05¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Ministral 3 8B 2512

0.1¢

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

0.1¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Ministral 3 8B 2512

2.7¢

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

1.9¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Ministral 3 8B 2512

0.62¢

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

0.43¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Ministral 3 8B 2512

4.4¢

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

2.8¢

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

Ministral 3 8B 2512

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Ministral 3 8B 2512

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Input / 1M tokens

$0.172

$0.103

Output / 1M tokens

$0.172

$0.632

Cached input / 1M

$0.017

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Specs

Ministral 3 8B 2512

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Provider

Mistral AI

Qwen

Released

December 2025

July 2025

Context window

262K

Max output

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16K

Input

Text and Images

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

—

2025-06-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Ministral 3 8B 2512

Mistral AI

0.04¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

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Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Qwen

0.05¢

for this task

40% input · 60% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.1¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 5,238 of these.

Which should you pick?

On price, Ministral 3 8B 2512 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.1¢.

For images or files, Ministral 3 8B 2512 can read them directly; Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Ministral 3 8B 2512 or Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Ministral 3 8B 2512 at 0.1¢; Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 at 0.1¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

They are identical — 262K tokens each, about 370 pages.

Can I run Ministral 3 8B 2512 and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.2¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.2¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.