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Classify · 1 checks · max 200 tokens · benched 2026-09-16

Mistral Large 3 2512 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Mistral Small 4 vs Ministral 3 8B 2512 on single message intent

Mistral AI models side by side on "Single message intent": Ministral 3 8B 2512 scores 10/10; Ministral 3 8B 2512 is the cheapest answer scoring 8+ at $0.01 per 1,000 runs. Outputs, checks, judge reasons, latency and cost.

The prompt every model received

System

You are a classifier. Reply with exactly one label and nothing else.

User

Choose the single best intent for the message from this list: cancel_subscription, upgrade_plan, billing_question, technical_issue, other. Reply with only the label.

Message: "Hi, my card was charged $49 on the 3rd but my plan page says I'm on the $29 tier. Which one am I actually paying for?"

Rubric for the judge: Exactly the label billing_question with no punctuation or explanation.

Side by side

Every cell is one OpenRouter call at temperature 0 with the prompt's token cap and reasoning effort "low" where the model supports it. Cost is usage × the catalogue rate in models.json. Quality is one judge call to anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 against the prompt's rubric, cached per prompt version.

Mistral Large 3 2512

mistralai/mistral-large-2512

10/10
Latency
526ms
Cost
$5.2e-5
Per 1,000
$0.05

92 in · 4 out · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
billing_question

Judge: Output is exactly 'billing_question' with no punctuation or explanation, perfectly matching the rubric requirements.

Mistral Medium 3.5

mistralai/mistral-medium-3-5

10/10
Latency
516ms
Cost
$0.00072
Per 1,000
$0.72

104 in · 75 out (88 reasoning) · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
billing_question

Judge: Output is exactly 'billing_question' with no punctuation or explanation, perfectly matching the rubric requirements.

Mistral Small 4

mistralai/mistral-small-2603

10/10
Latency
440ms
Cost
$0.00012
Per 1,000
$0.12

104 in · 169 out (200 reasoning) · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
billing_question

Judge: Output is exactly 'billing_question' with no punctuation or explanation, perfectly matching the rubric requirements.

Ministral 3 8B 2512

mistralai/ministral-8b-2512

10/10
top judge scorecheapest scoring 8+
Latency
643ms
Cost
$1.4e-5
Per 1,000
$0.01

92 in · 4 out · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
billing_question

Judge: Output is exactly 'billing_question' with no punctuation or explanation, perfectly matching the rubric requirements.

Frequently asked

What does this prompt test?

Classify: Exactly the label billing_question with no punctuation or explanation. The deterministic checks are exact.

Which model should I pick for this task?

If the judge's bar of 8/10 is good enough for you, Ministral 3 8B 2512 at $0.01 per 1,000 runs. If you need the top score, Ministral 3 8B 2512 at $0.01 per 1,000 runs.

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