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Ministral 3
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 14B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
Updated Aug 17, 2026. Default version: Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)
LLMBoard Score28.3Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)
Coverage60%4 benchmark families
Context window262.1KTokens
Official input price$0.10Mistral API
Ministral 3 Capability Profile
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Ministral 3 Benchmark Results
Benchmark scores for Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512).
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Benchmark | Score | Rank | Participants | Percentile | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| BenchmarkAIME 2024 | Score86.0% | Rank16 | Participants53 | Percentile71.2% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLiveCodeBench | Score61.6% | Rank35 | Participants75 | Percentile54.0% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkAIME 2025 | Score78.7% | Rank72 | Participants115 | Percentile37.7% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkGPQA | Score66.8% | Rank144 | Participants239 | Percentile39.9% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
Ministral 3 Arena Results
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
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The default version does not have a matching Arena result yet.
Ministral 3 Pricing
Official vendor API pricing appears first, followed by individual provider offers.
- Official API
- $0.10 input, $0.10 output per 1M
- Official provider
- Mistral
- Lowest third-party
- N/A
- Tracked offerings
- 1
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Provider | Provider model ID | Region | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Updated |
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| ProviderMistral | Provider model IDministral-8b-latest | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.10 | Output / 1M$0.10 | Context128K | Updated |
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
Ministral 3 Runtime Performance
Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512). Runtime does not affect the capability score.
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Provider | Output Speed | Catalog Latency | Max Input | Max Output | Updated |
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| ProviderMistral AI | Output Speed237.5 tok/s | Catalog Latency0.34 s | Max Input262.1K | Max Output262.1K | Updated |
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
Ministral 3 Specifications
Technical details for the model's default version.
- Version
- Ministral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512)
- Released
- Dec 4, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Unknown
- Parameters
- 8B
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 262.1K
- Inputs
- image, text
- Outputs
- text
- Open weights
- No
- License
- Apache 2.0
Ministral 3 Versions
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
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Version | Released | LLMBoard | Parameters | Context | Max output | Open weights | License |
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| VersionMinistral 3 (14B Reasoning 2512) | Released | LLMBoardN/A | Parameters14B | Context262.1K | Max output262.1K | Open weightsNo | LicenseApache 2.0 |
| VersionMinistral 3 (14B Base 2512) | Released | LLMBoardN/A | Parameters14B | ContextN/A | Max outputN/A | Open weightsNo | LicenseApache 2.0 |
| VersionMiniStral 3 (14B Instruct 2512) | Released | LLMBoardN/A | Parameters14B | ContextN/A | Max outputN/A | Open weightsNo | LicenseApache 2.0 |
| VersionMinistral 3 (3B Base 2512) | Released | LLMBoardN/A | Parameters3B | ContextN/A | Max outputN/A | Open weightsNo | LicenseApache 2.0 |
| VersionMinistral 3 (3B Instruct 2512) | Released | LLMBoardN/A | Parameters3B | ContextN/A | Max outputN/A | Open weightsNo | LicenseApache 2.0 |
| VersionMinistral 3 (8B Base 2512) | Released | LLMBoardN/A | Parameters8B | ContextN/A | Max outputN/A | Open weightsNo | LicenseApache 2.0 |
| VersionMinistral 3 (8B Instruct 2512) | Released | LLMBoardN/A | Parameters8B | ContextN/A | Max outputN/A | Open weightsNo | LicenseApache 2.0 |
| VersionMinistral 3 (8B Reasoning 2512) | Released | LLMBoard28.3 | Parameters8B | Context262.1K | Max output262.1K | Open weightsNo | LicenseApache 2.0 |
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What is Ministral 3?
Key information about Ministral 3 and its available data.
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 14B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities. This model is the reasoning post-trained version, trained for reasoning tasks, making it ideal for math, coding and stem related use cases.
The Ministral 3 family is designed for edge deployment, capable of running on a wide range of hardware. Ministral 3 14B can even be deployed locally, capable of fitting in 24GB of VRAM in BF16, and less than 12GB of RAM/VRAM when quantized.
Data as of 2026-08-17.
FAQ
Common questions about Ministral 3.
When was Ministral 3 released?
Ministral 3's default version was released on Dec 4, 2025.
How much does Ministral 3 cost?
Ministral 3's official API price is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens via Mistral.
Who created Ministral 3?
Ministral 3 was created by Mistral AI.
What is the context window for Ministral 3?
The default version has a 262.1K token context window.
Is Ministral 3 open weight?
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.
How many API providers offer Ministral 3?
1 provider offerings are linked to the default version.
What models should I compare Ministral 3 with?
Nearby ranked alternatives include Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B, Kimi k1.5, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking.