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Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512)

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 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 3B can even be deployed locally, fitting in 16GB of VRAM in BF16, and less than 8GB of RAM/VRAM when quantized.

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) was released on December 4, 2025. API access is available through Mistral AI.

Performance

Timeline

ReleasedUnknown
Knowledge CutoffUnknown

Specifications

Parameters
3.0B
License
Apache 2.0
Training Data
Unknown

Benchmarks

Benchmarks

Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Pricing

Pricing

Pricing, performance, and capabilities for Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512) across different providers:

ProviderInput ($/M)Output ($/M)Max InputMax OutputLatency (s)ThroughputQuantizationInputOutput
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$0.10$0.10131.1K131.1K
0.16
1222 c/s
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FAQ

Common questions about Min istral 3 (3B Reasoning 2512)

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