mistralai / text-generation Open weights Also via API updated 3 months ago

Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512

The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

Params
3.8 B
Context
—
Downloads 30d
93 K
Likes
311
Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS 11 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors f8_e4m3 9.3 GB 11.4 GB ✅ Runs comfortably
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub
~ · curl · api/v1
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/ministral-3-3b-instruct-2512
{
  "hf_id": "mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512",
  "params_b": 3.85,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "apache-2.0", "commercial": "yes" },
  "downloads_30d": 93398,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "f8_e4m3", "gb": 11.4 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-10-19T06:00:20Z"
}
est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Use via API

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$0.10
input / 1M
$0.10
output / 1M
$0.01
cached input / 1M
$0.20
1M in + 1M out
Context window
131,072 tokens
Max output
104,857 tokens
Providers
1
Cheapest provider
Mistral · $0.10 / $0.10
Best throughput
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AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
4.8 / 4.8 / 0.8
✓ Tool calling ✗ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Specifications

Architecture
Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
Parameters
3.8 B
Tensor type
F8_E4M3
Licence
apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub
2025-10-31
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-10-20
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