Ministral 3 8B: Specifications & Sources

Specifications and access

Specification	Value and source
Weights	Open weightsSource
Access	API, LocalSource
Parameters	8.8BSource
Context window	262,144 tokensSource
License	Apache-2.0Source
Release	2025-12-02Source
Parameters	8.8 BSource
Architecture	8.4B language model plus 0.4B vision encoderSource
Input	Text, ImageSource
Output	TextSource
Tool calling	YesSource
Structured output	YesSource

Measurements without matching peer values

These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.

WildBench (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 66.8
Score: 66.8
Metric: percent
Unit: %
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Ministral 3 model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Instruct table; exact judge not stated

Source Ministral 3 model card

Arena Hard (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 0.509
Score: 0.509
Metric: ratio
Unit: ratio
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Ministral 3 model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. RawFraction [0,1]; Instruct table; exact judge not stated

Source Ministral 3 model card

MATH Maj@1 (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 0.876
Score: 0.876
Metric: ratio
Unit: ratio
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Ministral 3 model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. RawFraction [0,1]; Instruct table; exact decoding not stated

Source Ministral 3 model card

MM MTBench (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 8.08
Score: 8.08
Metric: rating
Unit: rating
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: vendor-reported
Evaluator: Ministral 3 model card
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Vendor-reported result. Instruct multimodal table; Multimodal MTBench; exact judge not stated

Source Ministral 3 model card

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 5.47767370454416
Score: 5.47767370454416
Metric: points
Unit: points
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: independent-evaluator
Evaluator: Artificial Analysis
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Independent evaluation. unknown

Source Artificial Analysis

AA-Briefcase Elo (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 99.22
Score: 99.22
Metric: elo
Unit: elo
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: independent-evaluator
Evaluator: Artificial Analysis
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Independent evaluation. unknown

Source Artificial Analysis

AA-Omniscience Index (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: -68.95
Score: -68.95
Metric: points
Unit: points
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: independent-evaluator
Evaluator: Artificial Analysis
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Independent evaluation. unknown

Source Artificial Analysis

Output speed (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 90.5464179240145
Score: 90.5464179240145
Metric: tokens/s
Unit: tokens/s
Direction: Higher is better
Source type: independent-evaluator
Evaluator: Artificial Analysis
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Independent evaluation. unknown
Context: Artificial Analysis performance timing; output speed is decoded after the first streaming chunk. Provider basis: first-party API.

Source Artificial Analysis

Time per Intelligence Index Task (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 1.3805336315740213
Score: 1.3805336315740213
Metric: minutes
Unit: minutes
Direction: Lower is better
Source type: independent-evaluator
Evaluator: Artificial Analysis
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Independent evaluation. unknown
Context: Artificial Analysis performance timing; output speed is decoded after the first streaming chunk. Provider basis: first-party API.

Source Artificial Analysis

Latency reasoning time (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 0
Score: 0
Metric: seconds
Unit: seconds
Direction: Lower is better
Source type: independent-evaluator
Evaluator: Artificial Analysis
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Independent evaluation. unknown
Context: Artificial Analysis performance timing; output speed is decoded after the first streaming chunk. Provider basis: first-party API.

Source Artificial Analysis

Latency input time (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 0.766551561499967
Score: 0.766551561499967
Metric: seconds
Unit: seconds
Direction: Lower is better
Source type: independent-evaluator
Evaluator: Artificial Analysis
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Independent evaluation. unknown
Context: Artificial Analysis performance timing; output speed is decoded after the first streaming chunk. Provider basis: first-party API.

Source Artificial Analysis

Answer generation time (end-to-end timing breakdown) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)

Source value: 5.522029600548021
Score: 5.522029600548021
Metric: seconds
Unit: seconds
Direction: Lower is better
Source type: independent-evaluator
Evaluator: Artificial Analysis
Status: active
Retrieved at: 2026-09-08
Methodology: Independent evaluation. unknown
Context: Artificial Analysis performance timing; output speed is decoded after the first streaming chunk. Provider basis: first-party API.

Source Artificial Analysis

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Our tests

Each test shows the latest attempt, with no subsequent fixes to the generated code. Earlier runs remain available in the test details. These results do not contribute to an overall score.

Pelican on a bicycle

A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.

Ministral 3 8B

Reasoning (requested): not specified

Current attempt

Run date: 1 Oct 2026
API provider: openrouter
Requested API model: mistralai/ministral-8b-2512
API model reported in response: mistralai/ministral-8b-2512
Reasoning setting: not specified
Pinned endpoint: Mistral | mistralai/ministral-8b-2512
Temperature: Provider default
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Test protocol: community-visual-tests-v1
Technical checks: Passed, not a quality rating
Response time: 13 s

Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.

Prompt and test conditions

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens

Task origin (Simon Willison)

Popularity

37.4 / 100

Published prices

Hosting-market price: the median of 3 OpenRouter endpoints from 1 providers (representative: Mistral), observed on October 7, 2026. Cache prices differ by provider and are not shown.

API input: $0.15 per 1M tokensSource
API output: $0.15 per 1M tokensSource

Predecessor and successor

Sources and data date

Type	Evidence and data date
Speed	Mistral. Output speed after the first streaming chunk, not total response time. Retrieved September 8, 2026. Source: Artificial Analysis · Artificial Analysis (retrieved September 8, 2026)Speed measurement methodology
Price	Base API prices without caching or batch discounts. Higher context tiers and other rates are listed under Costs. Source: Pricing · API pricing
Input	Documented modalities. Retrieved September 8, 2026. Source: Model documentation · Model metadata (retrieved September 8, 2026) · Ministral 3 8B model card · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Output	Documented modalities. Retrieved September 8, 2026. Source: Model documentation · Model metadata (retrieved September 8, 2026) · Ministral 3 8B model card · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Research status	Research date September 8, 2026. 2 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication.
Not found in the inspected sources	knowledge-cutoff Original wording No exact cutoff in card.
Not found in the inspected sources	training-tokens Original wording No training-token count in card.
Not found in the inspected sources	max-output-tokens Original wording No model-specific maximum output stated.
Additional source	Mistral 3 announcement · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Additional source	Mistral model overview · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Additional source	OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional source	Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional source	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0