Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)
Overview
Overview
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 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 8B can even be deployed locally, capable of fitting in 24GB of VRAM in BF16, and less than 12GB of RAM/VRAM when quantized.
Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) was released on December 4, 2025. API access is available through Mistral AI.
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Pricing
Pricing, performance, and capabilities for Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) across different providers:
| Provider | Input ($/M) | Output ($/M) | Max Input | Max Output | Latency (s) | Throughput | Quantization | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mistral AI | $0.15 | $0.15 | 262.1K | 262.1K | 0.34 | 237.5 c/s | — | Text Image Audio Video | Text Image Audio Video |
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