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Ministral 3b vs Sonar Deep Research
This page is context-first: how much text each model can take in one request. Full specs adds capabilities and limits; the pricing matrix below is only about $/million tokens from hosts that list both models.
Context window · side by side
Bar length is relative to the larger of the two windows (100% = max of this pair). This is not pricing.
Same context window size for both models.
Ministral 3b and Sonar Deep Research have identical context windows (128K tokens). Ministral 3b is 98% cheaper on input.
Quick verdicts
Short takeaways — validate with your own workloads.
RAG / high-volume retrieval
Use Ministral 3b. Input tokens are 98% cheaper — critical when sending large retrieved contexts.
Full specs
Context, output, capabilities, and dates. Green highlights the favorable value where we compute a winner.
| Spec | Ministral 3b | Sonar Deep Research |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128,000 tokens (128K) | 128,000 tokens (128K) |
| Max output tokens | 4,096 tokens (4K) | N/A |
| Speed tier | Fast | Balanced |
| Vision | No | No |
| Function calling | Yes | No |
| Extended thinking | No | Yes |
| Prompt caching | No | No |
| Batch API | No | No |
| Release date | N/A | Mar 2025 |
Pricing matrix
Dollar rates only: hosts that list both models, per 1M tokens. For how much text fits, use the context section above — not this table.
| Provider | Ministral 3b in | Ministral 3b out | Sonar Deep Research in | Sonar Deep Research out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure | $0.040/M | $0.040/M | — | — |
| Perplexity | — | — | $2.00/M | $8.00/M |
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