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Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs GLM 5.3

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), GLM 5.3 costs 6.7× as much as Ministral 3 8B 2512: $2.41 against $0.36 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Ministral 3 8B 2512GLM 5.3
Input, per 1M tokens$0.15$0.325
Output, per 1M tokens$0.15$4.40
Context window262K1.31M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.0915$0.239
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$0.36$2.41
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$1.27$4.80
Confidence signalnoyes
Tool callingyesyes

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Ministral 3 8B 2512 answers your requests as well as GLM 5.3, moving that traffic saves 85% 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.

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