Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512
Mistral's Ministral 3 8B 2512 is a compact multimodal model with vision and tool use support, but lacks benchmark data to substantiate its capabilities. At its price point it may suit lightweight tasks, but stronger benchmarked alternatives are available for business use.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Mistral |
| Parameters | 8B |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 | $0.000150 |
| Output | $0.15 | $0.000150 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
External Resources
Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: March 15, 2026 7:52 pm