Ministral 3 8B 2512 — Mistral AI | Modeldex

Ministral 3 8B 2512

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A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

VisionLong contextBudget

API release

Dec 2, 2025(5 months ago)

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Overview

A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

History

Ministral 3 8B 2512 became available via the Mistral AI API on 2025-12-02.

Training & availability

Mistral AI has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.

Capabilities

Context window: 262K tokens.
Input modalities: text, image.

Recommended for: vision, long-context, cheap.

Pricing

Input: $0.1500 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.1500 per 1M tokens

Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.

Quick start

Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistral/ministral-8b-2512",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.

Input tokens / month5.0M

@ $0.15/1M

Output tokens / month2.0M

@ $0.15/1M

Input cost

$0.75

5.0M × $0.15/1M

Output cost

$0.3

2.0M × $0.15/1M

Total / month

$1.05

$12.6 / year

Providers & performance

2 providers

Multi-provider inference routes for this model — sorted by throughput. Latency is time-to-first-token; throughput is output tokens per second. Data from OpenRouter, measured over the last 30 minutes.

Provider	Throughput	Latency (TTFT)	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Context	Quant	Supports
Mistral	112tok/s	189ms	$0.15	$0.15	262K	—	tools · json
NextBit	39tok/s	596ms	$0.3	$0.3	262K	fp8	tools · json

Popularity

Signals from open-source communities — not a quality measure, but useful for gauging adoption among developers.

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HuggingFace downloads

220.5K/ month

HuggingFace likes

162

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Not supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Not enough data

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