Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

Mistral's Ministral 3 8B sits within the Ministral 3 family as a balanced, compact language model engineered for efficiency without sacrificing capability. As an 8-billion parameter model, it occupies the "tiny language model" space, designed to deliver strong performance while being more computationally accessible than larger frontier models. A distinguishing feature is its multimodal design, integrating vision alongside text processing to handle image inputs natively. This combination positions it as a versatile option for applications that require understanding both visual and textual information in a streamlined package.

The model is released with standard weights available on HuggingFace, reflecting Mistral's broader commitment to open model access within their model family. Its lineage within the Ministral series suggests iterative refinement of training techniques and architectural choices developed across Mistral's releases. The balance of capability and efficiency makes it particularly well-suited for developers and organizations seeking multimodal functionality at a smaller scale, enabling deployment in contexts where resource constraints would limit larger models.

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Model key: mistralai/ministral-8b-2512
Release date: Dec 2, 2025
Last updated: Dec 2, 2025
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Input token cost: $0.15
Output token cost: $0.15

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Output tokens: 209,715 tokens
Context window: 262,144 tokens

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CoverageBenchmark

ModelBench published a third-party profile for Mistral's Ministral 3 8B 2512 (model ID mistralai/ministral-8b-2512), confirming it as a balanced entry in the Ministral 3 family positioned as an efficient tiny language model with vision input capability. The profile records a 262.144K token context window with a 209.715 Independent percentile rankings from ModelBench place Ministral 3 8B 2512 at a Coding Index of 9.7 (4.4th percentile, rank 194 of 203), an Agentic Index of 0.6 (3.7th percentile), and an Intelligence Index of 5.5 (2.4th percentile), with Design Arena ELO scores of 1078 for website (19.6th percentile), 1069 for codecate

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CoverageBenchmark

OpenOCR published reproducible benchmark evidence for Mistral's Ministral 3 8B 2512, recording an average score of 97.4% across 11 documents on its ocr-shared-11-normalized/v2 corpus using the ocr-shared-11-scorer/v2 harness, with results measured on 2026-08-07 and the page dated 2026-08-22. The page documents the exac For developers considering Ministral 3 8B 2512 for document recognition workloads, the OpenOCR results indicate strong performance on retail receipts and handwritten text with sub-2-second response latency on the tested documents, while the café receipt result (86.7%) suggests format-normalized character LCS similarity