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Command R7B (12-2024) vs Ministral 3 8B 2512

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Ministral 3 8B 2512 costs 2.7× as much as Command R7B (12-2024): $0.36 against $0.135 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Command R7B (12-2024)Ministral 3 8B 2512
Input, per 1M tokens$0.0375$0.15
Output, per 1M tokens$0.15$0.15
Context window128K262K
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.024$0.0915
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$0.135$0.36
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$0.375$1.27
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingnoyes

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Command R7B (12-2024) answers your requests as well as Ministral 3 8B 2512, moving that traffic saves 63% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Command R7B (12-2024) does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

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