Mistral Ministral 3 3B 2512 vs Sao10K Llama 3 8B Lunaris
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Llama 3 8B Lunaris is 2.4× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Ministral 3 3B 2512 accepts longer prompts: 131K vs 8K tokens.
- Ministral 3 3B 2512 is the newer model (released 2025-12-02).
| Ministral 3 3B 2512 | Llama 3 8B Lunaris | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Mistral | Sao10K |
| Released | 2025-12-02 | 2024-08-13 |
| Input / 1M | $0.10 | $0.04 |
| Output / 1M | $0.10 | $0.05 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.01 | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.10 | $0.042 |
| Context | 131K | 8K |
| Max output | 105K | 7K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 3 | 2 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.10 | $0.05 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
Ministral 3 3B 2512
$7.50 per month$0.25 per day
Llama 3 8B Lunaris
$3.15 per month$0.10 per day
Llama 3 8B Lunaris saves $4.35 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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