Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Ministral 3 3B

Which is better for the money: Gemini 2.5 Pro by Google or Ministral 3 3B by Mistral? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

GoogleGemini 2.5 ProOff the frontier

Intelligence: 16.10
Total cost: $823

MistralMinistral 3 3BOn the open-weights frontier

Intelligence: 4.80
Total cost: $12.2

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores 11.3 points higher (16.1 vs 4.8) but costs 67× as much to run the benchmark ($823 vs $12.2; premium vs budget cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Gemini 2.5 Pro when you need intelligence above 4.8, and Ministral 3 3B when 4.8 is enough.

Metric	Gemini 2.5 Pro	Ministral 3 3B	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	16.1	4.8	−70.2% Ministral 3 3B is 70.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$822.85	$12.23	−98.5% Ministral 3 3B is 98.5% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	27.13s	3.07s	−88.7% Ministral 3 3B is 88.7% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.25 / $10.0	$0.10 / $0.10
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text, Image

Ministral 3 3B vs Gemini 2.5 Pro: 70.2% less intelligence, 98.5% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 88.7% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 2.5 Pro is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.
Ministral 3 3B is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.

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