Ministral 3 8B
Summary
Ministral 3 8B is an open-weight language model from Mistral AI, released on 2 Dec 2025. It accepts text and images and generates text, with a 128K-token context window and up to 4K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens (Amazon Bedrock), across 2 providers we track.
Compact open vision-language model for edge deployment, instruction following, and tool use
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | Mistral AI |
|---|---|
| Release date | 2 Dec 2025 [models.dev] |
| Status | Generally available [models.dev] |
| Weights | Open weights [Hugging Face] |
| License | apache-2.0 [Hugging Face] |
| Parameters | 8.9B [Hugging Face] |
| Context window | 128K (128,000 tokens) [models.dev] |
| Max output | 4K tokens [models.dev] |
| Input | Text and images [models.dev] |
| Output | Text [models.dev] |
| Reasoning mode | No [models.dev] |
| Tool calling | Yes [models.dev] |
| Structured output | Yes [models.dev] |
| Hugging Face | mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 [Hugging Face] |
Ministral 3 8B API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock mistral.ministral-3-8b-instruct | $0.15 | $0.15 | – | 128K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| OpenRouter mistralai/ministral-8b-2512 | $0.15 | $0.15 | $0.01 | 262K | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Ministral 3 8B?
Ministral 3 8B has a context window of 128,000 tokens (128K) and can generate up to 4,096 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.
How much does the Ministral 3 8B API cost?
Ministral 3 8B is listed from $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens (Amazon Bedrock). Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is Ministral 3 8B open source?
Ministral 3 8B is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 under the apache-2.0 license. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was Ministral 3 8B released?
Mistral AI released Ministral 3 8B on 2 Dec 2025, according to models.dev.
Which providers offer Ministral 3 8B?
We track Ministral 3 8B on 2 providers: Amazon Bedrock, OpenRouter.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.