MistralReleased on Dec 4, 2025

Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512): Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) is a language model from Mistral, released in December 2025, with multimodal input.

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 base pre-trained version, not fine-tuned for instruction or reasoning tasks, making it

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Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) examples

Recent arena outputs from Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512), picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) license

Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 8.0B parameters.

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
8.0B

Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use

FAQ

Common questions about Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512).

When was Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) released?

Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) was released on December 4, 2025 by Mistral. This is the official Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) release date tracked on LLM Stats.

Is Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) available via API?

Yes, Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details.

How many parameters does Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) have?

Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) has 8 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512)?

Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) was created by Mistral.

What is the license for Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512)?

Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Is Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) multimodal?

Yes, Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where is the Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) paper or technical report?

Ministral 3 (8B Base 2512) has a paper or technical report available at https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.