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Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512)

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Overview

Overview

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 for chat and instruction based use cases. The Ministral 3 family is designed for edge deployment, capable of running on a wide range of hardware. Ministral 3 3B can even be deployed locally, fitting in 16GB of VRAM in BF16, and less than 8GB of RAM/VRAM when quantized.

Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) was released on December 4, 2025.

Performance

Timeline

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Specifications

Parameters
3.0B
License
Apache 2.0
Training Data
Unknown

Benchmarks

Benchmarks

Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) Performance Across Datasets

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FAQ

Common questions about Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512)

Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) was released on December 4, 2025 by Mistral.
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) was created by Mistral.
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) has 3.0 billion parameters.
Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This is an open-source/open-weight license.
Yes, Ministral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) is a multimodal model that can process both text and images as input.