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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512
mistralai/ministral-8b-2512
Our take
AI-assisted analysis based on the sources below. Suitability is an editorial assessment; test it on your own workload.
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 is the FP8 instruct member of Mistral's Ministral 3 family, listed on OpenRouter as mistralai/ministral-8b-2512. The model card describes a compact text-and-image-to-text model with a 256k-token context window, multilingual support, system-prompt adherence, function calling, and JSON output for edge-oriented deployment. OpenRouter lists text and image inputs with text output. Vendor and catalog benchmark figures are reported in the sources, not independently verified here.[1][2]
Strengths
- Vendor documentation reports vision input, multilingual coverage, strong system-prompt adherence, native function calling, and JSON output.[2]
- The card describes an FP8 instruct checkpoint for edge use, reported to fit within 12GB of VRAM in FP8 and less when further quantized.[2]
- OpenRouter lists a 262,144-token context window and support for tools and structured outputs; the card reports an Apache 2.0 license.[1][2]
Limitations
- Evidence is limited to a catalog entry and vendor documentation; validate quality, latency, and cost on your workload.[1][2]
- Available benchmark figures are reported by the sources, and the OpenRouter entries cover only selected design, coding, and agentic categories.[1][2]
- OpenRouter does not list a reasoning capability, and no knowledge cutoff or safety evaluation is supplied for this exact deployment.[1][2]
Where to use it
- Consider for local or embedded multilingual chat assistants where a small footprint matters, subject to hardware and latency testing.[2]
- Consider for image or document description and other workflows requiring text-plus-image input.[1][2]
- Consider for tool-using assistants that need JSON or structured outputs, after validating call reliability.[1][2]
Sources
- [1] OpenRouter catalog · Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512Sources checked: Nov 13, 2026
- [2] Model documentation · Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512Sources checked: Nov 13, 2026
About this model
Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
Specifications
- Model ID
- mistralai/ministral-8b-2512
- Creator
- mistralai
- Added to OpenRouter
- 02.12.2025
- Context length
- 262,144
- Modality
- text+image->text
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- text
- Token pricing
- USD per 1M tokens: in $0.150 / out $0.150
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Expiration date
- —
Tasks and capabilities
A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.
| Task | Grade | Source-declared capability |
|---|---|---|
| General quality | No measurement | — |
| Coding | CC — below the B band | — |
| Agents | CC — below the B band | parameters: structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools |
| Writing | No measurement | output: text |
| Reasoning | No measurement | — |
| Document analysis | No measurement | — |
| Vision | No measurement | input: image |
| Image generation | No measurement | — |
| Audio | No measurement | — |
| Video | No measurement | — |
| Embeddings | No measurement | — |
Evaluations
| Source | Benchmark | Value | Grade | Data retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | Coding index | 9.7 | CC — below the B band | 13.11.2026 |
| Artificial Analysis | Agentic index | 0.6 | CC — below the B band | 13.11.2026 |
| Design Arena | models · 3dwin rate 46.2% · rank 117 | 1,014Elo | CC — below the B band | 13.11.2026 |
| Design Arena | models · codecategorieswin rate 42.9% · rank 122 | 1,044Elo | CC — below the B band | 13.11.2026 |
| Design Arena | models · gamedevwin rate 38.7% · rank 128 | 981Elo | CC — below the B band | 13.11.2026 |
| Design Arena | models · websitewin rate 42.9% · rank 122 | 1,058Elo | CC — below the B band | 13.11.2026 |
How grades work
Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.
- S — S — top 10% of the cohort
- A — A — next 20% of the cohort
- B — B — next 30% of the cohort
- C — C — below the B band
Providers
Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.
| Provider | Context length | Price in /1M | Price out /1M | Latency p50 (30m, s) | Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s) | Uptime (30m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral | 262,144 | $0.150 | $0.150 | — | — | 100% |
| Mistral | 262,144 | $0.165 | $0.165 | — | — | 100% |
Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026
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