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Migrating from labs-mistral-small-creative to ministral-8b-2512

What changes when you move from labs-mistral-small-creative to ministral-8b-2512: input price +50%, output price −50%, context window 32,000 → 256,000 tokens.

Status
Retired
Shutdown
Apr 30, 2026
Time left
—
Status
Active
Shutdown
none announced
Time left
—

Prices

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier
Typelabs-mistral-small-creativeministral-8b-2512Change
Input$0.10first seen October 5, 2026 · source$0.15first seen October 5, 2026 · source+50%
Output$0.30first seen October 5, 2026 · source$0.15first seen October 5, 2026 · source−50%

At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $0.175 on labs-mistral-small-creative, $0.1875 on ministral-8b-2512 (+7.1%).

Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.

Limits

Tokens
Limitlabs-mistral-small-creativeministral-8b-2512Change
Context window32,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source256,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source+700%
Max output tokensNot publishedNot published—

Features and parameters

Compare models

Same on both

  • Structured outputs: supported on both.labs-mistral-small-creative: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · ministral-8b-2512: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Function calling: supported on both.labs-mistral-small-creative: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · ministral-8b-2512: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Batch API: supported on both.labs-mistral-small-creative: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · ministral-8b-2512: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • PDF input: supported on both.labs-mistral-small-creative: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · ministral-8b-2512: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source

Not published for labs-mistral-small-creative: Prompt caching, Image input, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.

Not published for ministral-8b-2512: Prompt caching, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.

Aliases

All aliases

No aliases point at labs-mistral-small-creative.

Aliases pointing at ministral-8b-2512: ministral-8b-latest (in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source)

On cloud platforms

All platform dates
ModelPlatformPlatform IDShutdownTime left
ministral-8b-2512Amazon Bedrockmistral.ministral-3-8b-instructnot before Dec 2, 2026Active

Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.

Checklist

  1. Change the model string from labs-mistral-small-creative to ministral-8b-2512.
  2. Re-check costs: ministral-8b-2512 costs more than labs-mistral-small-creative (input +50%).

Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: labs-mistral-small-creative, ministral-8b-2512.