Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512): Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) is a language model from Mistral, released in December 2025, with multimodal input.
The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities. This model is the instruct post-trained version in FP8, fine-tuned for instruction tasks, making it ideal
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
High-confidence performance for Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.
Performance by conversation depth
How Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) holds up as conversations get longer.
Quality Tracker
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Mon Oct 05 2026Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) model size
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Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) latency
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) examples
Recent arena outputs from Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512), picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) license
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 3.0B parameters.
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use allowed
- Parameters
- 3.0B
Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) resources
Official sources for Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512): provider documentation, official playground, official launch post, model weights.
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) are Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct, Phi 4. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512)
Models ranked just above and below Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512).