Models/Mistral/Ministral 3 8B 2512

Ministral 3 8B 2512

A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

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Identity

262,144Context in
Not published on OpenRouterContext out
2025-12-02 (OpenRouter created 1764681654)Released
OpenWeights
Canonical name
Ministral 3 8B 2512
Aliases
mistralai/ministral-8b-2512, mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
Continuum hosted id
Not listed as a Continuum hosted id
OpenRouter slug
mistralai/ministral-8b-2512
Hugging Face
mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
Modalities
text, image
Open weights Not on Continuum host list Open

Context window on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row: 262,144 tokens.

Max completion tokens were not listed on that row.

Input / output on that row: $0.15 / $0.15 per 1M tokens.

Architecture fields: text+image->text · Mistral.

Hugging Face id on that row: mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512.

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Should I use this for coding agents

A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

When you want the 2025-12-02 catalog SKU, not a later rename.

No independent row for this SKU

No independent board lists this exact SKU as of 2026-08-19.

No other card from this lab carries an independent board row either, so there is no sibling worth pointing at.

Boards checked: DeepSWE official (2026-08-13), Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, vals.ai hero index. Every card that does carry a row is on the coding leaderboard.

DeepSWE

No official DeepSWE mini-swe-agent row for this identity on the public board we fetched.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-13 source
Artificial Analysis

No Intelligence Index integer fetched for this identity. Chip omitted.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-19 source
Vals Index

We did not open a vals.ai card for this identity. Chip omitted.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-19 source
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When not to use it

Trust this before you buy

  • When you need a Continuum-hosted SKU from this lab, use the hosted card on this hub instead of this catalog row.
  • $0.15 in / $0.15 out per 1M on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row. Context 262,144 in.
  • Need a denser published sibling on this hub? Mistral Large 2512 is the card already on the cluster.
  • When the job needs a published DeepSWE, Artificial Analysis, or vals.ai chip: this page does not invent one. Those boards did not list this exact SKU on 2026-08-19.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.

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Artifact and Hugging Face downloads

Artifact

SPDX / license
apache-2.0
Total params
HF safetensors.total: 8,918,026,716 stored tensors
Native precision
HF tensors BF16 + F8_E4M3
Repo size
HF API usedStorage 20,908,950,383 bytes
HF created
2025-10-31T08:43:35.000Z
Official HF repo
mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
HF downloads
132,671
HF likes
195

Official weights id on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row: mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512. Community GGUF is a quant, not a second Continuum card.

Official weights

This is the model repo, not Download for Mac. Downloads and likes from the Hugging Face API on 2026-08-19.

Hub file tree

Safetensor shards
4
Shard bytes
20,841,288,000 bytes
Other file bytes
33,995,973 bytes
Tree file count
16
Hub usedStorage
20,908,950,383 bytes

usedStorage and the sum of .safetensors sizes can differ (LFS pointers, non-shard files, duplicate copies). Cited separately. Source: recursive tree API, 2026-08-19.

PathBytes
consolidated.safetensors10,420,633,176
model-00001-of-00003.safetensors4,983,094,790
model-00002-of-00003.safetensors4,992,892,530
model-00003-of-00003.safetensors444,667,504
tokenizer.json17,077,420
tekken.json16,753,784
model.safetensors.index.json103,195
tokenizer_config.json21,177
README.md20,311
chat_template.jinja11,912
SYSTEM_PROMPT.txt2,361
config.json1,903
.gitattributes1,618
params.json1,185
processor_config.json976
generation_config.json131

All 16 files the tree API returned are listed: every one of the 4 safetensor shards plus 12 other files. Files tab: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512/tree/main.

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Continuum serving

OpenRouter slug mistralai/ministral-8b-2512 on the 2026-08-19 catalog.

First party: https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/.

Not on the Continuum host list fetched 2026-08-19.

Continuum hosted id not on the host list

We list first-party and OpenRouter, plus Continuum only when the live public allowlist named the id. This is not a 15-host routing table.

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Economics

OpenRouter 2026-08-19: $0.15 in / $0.15 out per 1M tokens. Context 262,144 in.

No separate internal-reasoning price on that row.

Price this model Opens the pricing calculator preloaded with Ministral 3 8B 2512.
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Provenance

ClaimSourceAs of
OpenRouter id mistralai/ministral-8b-2512; context 262144; created 1764681654; $0.15 / $0.15 per 1MOpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
OpenRouter id mistralai/ministral-8b-2512, context 262,144OpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
HF downloads 132,671Hugging Face API mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-25122026-08-19
HF safetensors.total: 8,918,026,716 stored tensors; HF API usedStorage 20,908,950,383 bytes; created 2025-10-31T08:43:35.000Z; HF tensors BF16 + F8_E4M3Hugging Face API mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-25122026-08-19
4 safetensor shards; shard bytes 20,841,288,000; tree files 16Hugging Face tree API mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-25122026-08-19
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Compare, FAQ, and Get Plus

No other card in this cluster shares a published DeepSWE official row we can put next to this one. We will not compare on vendor-blog numbers.

Continue through Mistral's model family with Ministral 3 3B 2512.

FAQ

Why does the lab blog disagree with DeepSWE or Scale?

Lab posts pick a harness, an effort, a split, and sometimes a private eval set. DeepSWE publishes the official mini-swe-agent row with cost, tokens, and steps. Scale SWE-bench Pro only counts when the public shared-harness board has a row we can fetch. A higher lab number is usually a different test, not a better one.

OpenAI-compatible call

No Continuum hosted id is verified for this model, so this page does not invent a curl target. Use the first-party API or the OpenRouter slug mistralai/ministral-8b-2512.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.