Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

Ministral 3 8B 2512 at $0.172 in and $0.172 out and Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct at $0.120 in and $0.478 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 VL 32B Instruct

Qwen

0.1¢

for a client proposal

$0.120 in · $0.478 out / 1M

131K context · released October 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 VL 32B Instruct at $0.120 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Ministral 3 8B 2512 at $0.172 per million tokens.
Largest context: Ministral 3 8B 2512 at 262K tokens — about 370 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 8B 2512

0.04¢

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

0.05¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Ministral 3 8B 2512

0.1¢

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

0.1¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Ministral 3 8B 2512

2.7¢

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Ministral 3 8B 2512

0.62¢

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

0.47¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Ministral 3 8B 2512

4.4¢

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

needs 250K ctx

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

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80% Input20% Output

Ministral 3 8B 2512

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

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

Pricing

Ministral 3 8B 2512

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

Input / 1M tokens

$0.172

$0.120

Output / 1M tokens

$0.172

$0.478

Cached input / 1M

$0.017

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Specs

Ministral 3 8B 2512

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

Provider

Mistral AI

Qwen

Released

December 2025

October 2025

Context window

262K

131K

Max output

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33K

Input

Text and Images

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

—

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

Full pricing →

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

Qwen

0.05¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.09¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 5,496 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Ministral 3 8B 2512 has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price, Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.1¢.

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 VL 32B Instruct?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct at 0.1¢; Ministral 3 8B 2512 at 0.1¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Ministral 3 8B 2512 — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run Ministral 3 8B 2512 and Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct 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.