# Ministral 8B

Powerful edge model with extremely high performance/price ratio. Learn more in our [blog post](https://mistral.ai/news/ministraux/)

- API names: `ministral-8b-2410`
- Status: Deprecated
- Type: Premier, Generalist
- Release date: 2024-10-09
- Version: 24.1
- Context length: 128k
- Input: text
- Output: text
- Features: structured-outputs, function-calling, document-qna, prefix, chat-completions, batching
- Speed rating: 3/5
- Performance rating: 2/5
- Pricing: Input $0.1 /M Tokens; Output $0.1 /M Tokens
- Licenses: MRL
- Open weights: [Weights](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-8B-Instruct-2410), 8B parameters, MRL
- Deprecation date: 2025-12-02
- Retirement date: 2025-12-31
- Replacement: [Ministral 3 8B](/models/ministral-3-8b-25-12)