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Pixtral 12B
Mistral AI
15.2 LLMBoard
Mistral AI model product
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities. This model is the reasoning post-trained version, trained for reasoning tasks, making it ideal for math, coding and stem related use cases. The Ministral 3 family is designed for edge deployment, capable of running on a wide range of hardware. Ministral 3 8B can even be deployed locally, capable of fitting in 24GB of VRAM in BF16, and less than 12GB of RAM/VRAM when quantized.
Updated Aug 10, 2026. Default version: Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)
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Preference and agent-evaluation signals from published Arena datasets.
The default version has no published Arena rows, or its source alias has not been resolved.
Official vendor API PAYG pricing is summarized first. The table then lists individual provider offerings without treating their minimum as the official price.
| Mistral | ministral-8b-latest | global | $0.10 | $0.10 | 128K |
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
All published versions linked to this unique model. The score columns identify the version used by the current overall ranking.
| Ministral 3 (14B Reasoning 2512) | N/A | 14B | 262.1K | 262.1K | No | Apache 2.0 | |
| Ministral 3 (14B Base 2512) | N/A | 14B | N/A | N/A | No | Apache 2.0 | |
| MiniStral 3 (14B Instruct 2512) | N/A | 14B | N/A | N/A | No | Apache 2.0 | |
| Ministral 3 (3B Base 2512) | N/A | 3B | N/A | N/A | No | Apache 2.0 | |
| Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) | N/A | 3B | N/A | N/A | No | Apache 2.0 | |
| Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) | N/A | 8B | N/A | N/A | No | Apache 2.0 | |
| Ministral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) | N/A | 8B | N/A | N/A | No | Apache 2.0 | |
| Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) | N/A | 8B | 262.1K | 262.1K | No | Apache 2.0 |
A concise description based on the published model registry.
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities. This model is the reasoning post-trained version, trained for reasoning tasks, making it ideal for math, coding and stem related use cases. The Ministral 3 family is designed for edge deployment, capable of running on a wide range of hardware. Ministral 3 8B can even be deployed locally, capable of fitting in 24GB of VRAM in BF16, and less than 12GB of RAM/VRAM when quantized.
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Data snapshot: 2026-08-07. Editorial model content is not available in the backend.
Recommendations prioritize the same model type and family, then the closest published LLMBoard score.
Common questions about Ministral 3.
Ministral 3's default version was released on Dec 4, 2025.
Ministral 3's official API price is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens via Mistral.
Ministral 3 is published under Mistral AI in the model registry.
The default version has a 262.1K token context window.
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.
1 published provider offerings are linked to the default version.
No nearby ranked alternatives are currently available.