The closest alternative to Ministral 3 14B 2512 is Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct — comparable intelligence (16.0 vs 16.0); for a cheaper option, MiMo-V2.5 runs $0.140/M vs $0.200/M; for more speed, gpt-oss-120b (free) hits 554 t/s; and the best open-weight substitute is MiniMax M3.
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is the closest alternative to Ministral 3 14B 2512, with an Intelligence Index of 16.0 (Ministral 3 14B 2512 scores 16.0) at $0.130 per million input tokens.
Yes — MiMo-V2.5 costs $0.140 per million input tokens versus $0.200 for Ministral 3 14B 2512, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
MiniMax M3 is the strongest open-weight alternative to Ministral 3 14B 2512 — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 54.7 on intelligence.