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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Ministral 3 8B 2512

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Claude Haiku 4.5 costs 11× as much as Ministral 3 8B 2512: $4.00 against $0.36 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Claude Haiku 4.5Ministral 3 8B 2512
Input, per 1M tokens$1.00$0.15
Output, per 1M tokens$5.00$0.15
Context window200K262K
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.65$0.0915
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$4.00$0.36
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$10.50$1.27
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400301not measured

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Ministral 3 8B 2512 answers your requests as well as Claude Haiku 4.5, moving that traffic saves 91% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Ministral 3 8B 2512 does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

Claude Haiku 4.5 profile · Ministral 3 8B 2512 profile · Measure it on your traffic