Ministral 3 3B 2512 vs Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct vs Grok 4.20

Ministral 3 3B 2512 at $0.115 in and $0.115 out, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct at $0.081 in and $0.310 out, and Grok 4.20 at $1.44 in and $2.88 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Ministral 3 3B 2512

Mistral AI

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.115 in · $0.115 out / 1M

131K context · released December 2025

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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

Qwen

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.081 in · $0.310 out / 1M

160K context · released July 2025

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Grok 4.20

xAI

0.95¢

for a client proposal

$1.44 in · $2.88 out / 1M

2M context · released 4 months ago

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Asking all three at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1.1¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct at $0.081 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Ministral 3 3B 2512 at $0.115 per million tokens.
Largest context: Grok 4.20 at 2M tokens — about 2,900 pages.

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 3B 2512

0.03¢

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

0.03¢

Grok 4.20

0.43¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Ministral 3 3B 2512

0.07¢

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

0.07¢

Grok 4.20

0.95¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Ministral 3 3B 2512

needs 155K ctx

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

1.4¢

Grok 4.20

$0.23

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Ministral 3 3B 2512

0.41¢

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

0.31¢

Grok 4.20

$0.05

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Ministral 3 3B 2512

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

needs 250K ctx

Grok 4.20

$0.74

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

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 3B 2512

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

Grok 4.20

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

Pricing

Ministral 3 3B 2512

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

Grok 4.20

Input / 1M tokens

$0.115

$0.081

$1.44

Output / 1M tokens

$0.115

$0.310

$2.88

Cached input / 1M

$0.011

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$0.230

Web search

—

0.57¢ / search

Specs

Ministral 3 3B 2512

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

Grok 4.20

Provider

Mistral AI

Qwen

xAI

Released

December 2025

July 2025

4 months ago

Context window

131K

160K

Max output

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33K

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Input

Text and Images

Text

Text, Images, and Files

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

—

2025-06-30

2025-09-01

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Ministral 3 3B 2512

Mistral AI

0.03¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

Qwen

0.03¢

for this task

51% input · 49% output

Full pricing →

Grok 4.20

xAI

0.43¢

for this task

67% input · 33% output

Full pricing →

All 3, same prompt and context: 0.49¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,017 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Grok 4.20 has the largest context window here — 2M tokens.

On price, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is the cheapest of the three on a typical task, at about 0.07¢.

For images or files, Ministral 3 3B 2512 and Grok 4.20 can read them directly; Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is text-only.

If you want to watch the model think, Grok 4.20 shows reasoning; the others answer directly.

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

Ministral 3 3B 2512 pricing →Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct pricing →Grok 4.20 pricing →Try other combinations →

Questions, answered

Which is cheapest — Ministral 3 3B 2512, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct, or Grok 4.20?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct at 0.07¢; Ministral 3 3B 2512 at 0.07¢; Grok 4.20 at 0.95¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Grok 4.20 — 2M tokens, about 2,900 pages.

Can I run Ministral 3 3B 2512, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct, and Grok 4.20 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 3, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 1.1¢ for a typical task.

Ask all three at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1.1¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.