A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
Model details →Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (exacto)
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over repositories. The mo…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (exacto) | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 262K | 262K | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.15 | $0.22 | 🏆 Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.15 | $1.80 | 🏆 Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | — | 🏆 Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 better than Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (exacto)?
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (exacto)?
Input: $0.15 vs $0.22 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.15 vs $1.80 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (exacto) support?
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 supports up to 262K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (exacto) supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (exacto) support tool calling?
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512: yes. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (exacto): yes.