Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
3.7 M
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
3.8 B
Context
—
30d
93 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 3.1 B 3.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 11
Downloads 30d 3,718,369 93,398
Downloads all time 124.5 M 4.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-10-31
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.10
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.10
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.20
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.01
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 4.8
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 4.8
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter 0.8
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 104,857
API providers not on OpenRouter 1
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 $0.20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

7.6 M93 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 · fp16 11.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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