# Ministral 3 8B

Ministral 3 8B is a powerful and efficient model in the Ministral 3 family, offering best-in-class text and vision capabilities. Built for edge deployment, it delivers high performance across diverse hardware, including local setups.

- API names: `ministral-8b-2512`, `ministral-8b-latest`
- Status: GA
- Type: Open, Generalist
- Release date: 2025-12-02
- Version: 25.12
- Context length: 256k
- Input: text, image
- Output: text
- Features: structured-outputs, function-calling, document-qna, prefix, chat-completions, batching
- Speed rating: 3/5
- Performance rating: 2/5
- Pricing: Input $0.15 /M Tokens; Output $0.15 /M Tokens
- Licenses: Apache 2.0
- Open weights: [Instruct Weights](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512), 8B parameters, Apache 2.0; [Reasoning Weights](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512), 8B parameters, Apache 2.0; [Base Weights](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Base-2512), 8B parameters, Apache 2.0