Qwen3.6 27B vs Ministral 3 8B 2512: API price and specs

Qwen3.6 27B is 75% cheaper than Ministral 3 8B 2512 on input price.

Ministral 3 8B 2512 is 64% cheaper than Qwen3.6 27B on output price.

Qwen3.6 27B is 32% cheaper than Ministral 3 8B 2512 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Field	Qwen3.6 27B	Ministral 3 8B 2512
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.025	$0.10 +300%
Median input, per 1M	$0.40 +167.5%	$0.15
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.28 +180%	$0.10
Median output, per 1M	$3.19 +2026.7%	$0.15
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.081	$0.12 +48.1%
Context	262K	262K
Max output	262K	256K +2.3%
Providers	27	7 +74.1%
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, US	EU, GLOBAL
Accepts	application/pdf, audio, file, image, image/bmp, image/gif, image/heic, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, pdf, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/webm	image, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	inferx	edenai

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

aiml, cortecs, edenai, kilo, openrouter, trustedrouter, vercel

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.6 27B or Ministral 3 8B 2512?

Qwen3.6 27B is 75% cheaper than Ministral 3 8B 2512 on input price. Ministral 3 8B 2512 is 64% cheaper than Qwen3.6 27B on output price. Qwen3.6 27B is 32% cheaper than Ministral 3 8B 2512 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3.6 27B or Ministral 3 8B 2512?

Qwen3.6 27B: 262K tokens; Ministral 3 8B 2512: 262K tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3.6 27B and Ministral 3 8B 2512?

aiml, cortecs, edenai, kilo, openrouter, trustedrouter, vercel