Qwen3-8B vs Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
3.8 B
Context
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30d
93 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-8B | Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 8.2 B | 3.8 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 11 |
| Downloads 30d | 8,164,793 | 93,398 |
| Downloads all time | 133.8 M | 4.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-10-31 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.10 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.10 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.20 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.01 |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | 4.8 |
| AA Coding Index | not on OpenRouter | 4.8 |
| AA Agentic Index | not on OpenRouter | 0.8 |
| Max output tokens | not on OpenRouter | 104,857 |
| API providers | not on OpenRouter | 1 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512
$0.20
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
16.6 M93 K
Qwen3-8B
Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 · fp16
11.4 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB