Compare Ministral 3 3B 2512 from Mistral AI and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b from OpenAI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the OpenRouter API.


Ministral 3 3B 2512 and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.
Ministral 3 3B 2512, from Mistral AI, has a 131,072-token context window and is priced at $0.10/M tokens input, $0.10/M tokens output on OpenRouter.
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b, from OpenAI, has a 131,072-token context window and is priced at $0.075/M tokens input, $0.30/M tokens output on OpenRouter.
| Attribute | Ministral 3 3B 2512 | gpt-oss-safeguard-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.10/M tokens | $0.075/M tokens |
| Output price | $0.10/M tokens | $0.30/M tokens |
| Context window | 131,072 tokens | 131,072 tokens |
| Intelligence Index | 4.8 | Not available |
| Coding Index | 4.8 | Not available |
| Agentic Index | 0.8 | Not available |
| Latency (p50) | 0.35 s | 0.15 s |
| Throughput (p50) | 130.0 tok/s | 593.0 tok/s |
Benchmark data updated
Ministral 3 3B 2512 and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b trade off on price: Ministral 3 3B 2512 costs $0.10/M tokens input and $0.10/M tokens output, while gpt-oss-safeguard-20b costs $0.075/M tokens input and $0.30/M tokens output, so gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is cheaper for input tokens and Ministral 3 3B 2512 is cheaper for output tokens.
Ministral 3 3B 2512 and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b have the same context window of 131,072 tokens.
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is faster on OpenRouter, generating a median 593.0 tokens per second compared with 130.0 tokens per second for Ministral 3 3B 2512.