Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

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Author's Description

A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

Key Specifications
Cost
$$
Context
262K
Parameters
8B
Released
Dec 02, 2025
Speed
Ability
Reliability
Supported Parameters

This model supports the following parameters:

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Features

This model supports the following features:

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Performance Summary

Mistral's Ministral 3 8B 2512, created on December 2, 2025, is a balanced and efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities. It consistently performs among the fastest models, achieving an Infinityth percentile ranking across 8 benchmarks. The model also offers highly competitive pricing, ranking in the Infinityth percentile across 8 benchmarks. Demonstrating exceptional reliability, it boasts a 99% success rate across all benchmarks, indicating minimal technical failures. In terms of performance across categories, Ministral 3 8B shows a notable strength in Coding, achieving 87.0% accuracy and being highlighted as the most accurate among models of its speed. It also performs well in General Knowledge (96.0% accuracy) and Ethics (97.0% accuracy), though these scores place it in the 43rd and 33rd percentiles respectively. A significant weakness is observed in Hallucinations, with 0.0% accuracy, indicating it does not appropriately acknowledge uncertainty. Instruction Following (44.0% accuracy) and Reasoning (52.0% accuracy) also present areas for improvement. While its cost and duration metrics are generally high percentile, reflecting efficiency, the Hallucinations result is a critical area for development.

Model Pricing

Current Pricing

Feature Price (per 1M tokens)
Prompt $0.15
Completion $0.15

Price History

Available Endpoints
Provider Endpoint Name Context Length Pricing (Input) Pricing (Output)
Mistral
Mistral | mistralai/ministral-8b-2512 262K $0.15 / 1M tokens $0.15 / 1M tokens
Benchmark Results
Benchmark Category Reasoning Strategy Free Executions Accuracy Cost Duration
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