Qwen3.6 35B-A3B vs Ministral 3 3B 2512: API price and specs

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is 88% cheaper than Ministral 3 3B 2512 on input price.

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is 10% cheaper than Ministral 3 3B 2512 on output price.

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is 75% cheaper than Ministral 3 3B 2512 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has a 2.4% larger context than Ministral 3 3B 2512.

Field	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B	Ministral 3 3B 2512
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.012	$0.10 +733.3%
Median input, per 1M	$0.17 +60.3%	$0.11
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.09	$0.10 +11.1%
Median output, per 1M	$1.01 +854.5%	$0.11
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.03	$0.12 +300%
Context	262K	256K +2.3%
Max output	262K	256K +2.3%
Providers	27	6 +77.8%
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, TW, US	EU, GLOBAL
Accepts	audio, image, image/bmp, image/heic, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/x-flv, video/x-matroska, video/x-ms-wmv, video/x-msvideo	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

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B or Ministral 3 3B 2512?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is 88% cheaper than Ministral 3 3B 2512 on input price. Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is 10% cheaper than Ministral 3 3B 2512 on output price. Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is 75% cheaper than Ministral 3 3B 2512 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B or Ministral 3 3B 2512?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 262K tokens; Ministral 3 3B 2512: 256K tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3.6 35B-A3B and Ministral 3 3B 2512?

aiml, cortecs, edenai, kilo, openrouter, trustedrouter