MistralReleased on Oct 16, 2024

Ministral 8B Instruct: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Ministral 8B Instruct is a language model from Mistral, released in October 2024.

The Ministral-8B-Instruct-2410 is an instruct fine-tuned model for local intelligence, on-device computing, and at-the-edge use cases, significantly outperforming existing models of similar size.

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Ministral 8B Instruct benchmarks

Rankings

Quality Tracker

Ministral 8B Instruct Performance Across Datasets

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

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Ministral 8B Instruct pricing

Providers

Ministral 8B Instruct starts at $0.100 per million input tokens and $0.100 per million output tokens via Mistral AI.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p50 / p95 sOutput avg / p5 c/sSuccess 7dModalities in / out
Mistral AI logoMistral AI
$0.100$0.100128.0K/128.0K
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests. Success is calculated from completed versus failed requests over the trailing seven days.

Ministral 8B Instruct context window

Input and output token limits for Ministral 8B Instruct, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

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128Ktokens
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192 pages of text
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Ministral 8B Instruct API

Available from the model provider

Ministral 8B Instruct has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

Ministral 8B Instruct latency

Ministral 8B Instruct time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Ministral 8B Instruct examples

Recent arena outputs from Ministral 8B Instruct, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Ministral 8B Instruct license

Ministral 8B Instruct is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has 8.0B parameters.

License
Mistral Research License
Hosted access
Parameters
8.0B

Ministral 8B Instruct resources

Official sources for Ministral 8B Instruct: api documentation, official launch post.

Ministral 8B Instruct vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Ministral 8B Instruct are Command R+, Granite 3.3 8B Instruct, Phi 4 Mini. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Ministral 8B Instruct

Models ranked just above and below Ministral 8B Instruct by LLM Stats score.

 

Command R+

Score pending
 

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Score pending
 

Phi 4 Mini

Score pending
 

Gemma 2 27B

Score pending
 

Grok-1.5

Score pending
 

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Ministral 8B Instruct.

When was Ministral 8B Instruct released?

Ministral 8B Instruct was released on October 16, 2024 by Mistral. This is the official Ministral 8B Instruct release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Ministral 8B Instruct cost?

Ministral 8B Instruct pricing starts at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens via Mistral AI, the lowest price among tracked providers.

Is Ministral 8B Instruct available via API?

Yes, Ministral 8B Instruct is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is Ministral 8B Instruct?

Ministral 8B Instruct has 8.0 billion parameters.

Who created Ministral 8B Instruct?

Ministral 8B Instruct was created by Mistral.

What is the license for Ministral 8B Instruct?

Ministral 8B Instruct is released under the Mistral Research License license.

What is Ministral 8B Instruct latency?

Ministral 8B Instruct p95 time to first token is 0.18 seconds via Mistral AI over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and API workloads.

Where can I use Ministral 8B Instruct?

Ministral 8B Instruct is available through 1 provider including Mistral AI.

Where is the Ministral 8B Instruct paper or technical report?

Ministral 8B Instruct has a paper or technical report available at https://mistral.ai/news/ministraux/. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Ministral 8B Instruct against?

Common Ministral 8B Instruct comparisons include Ministral 8B Instruct vs Command R+, Ministral 8B Instruct vs Granite 3.3 8B Instruct, Ministral 8B Instruct vs Phi 4 Mini. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.