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Ministral 3 8B 2512

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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.

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Ministral 3 8B 2512

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

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

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `mistralai/ministral-8b-2512`.

  • openrouter · mistralai/ministral-8b-2512 Docs

OpenRouter id: mistralai/ministral-8b-2512

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 5.5 index
  • Coding Index (artificial-analysis): 9.7 index
  • Agentic Index (artificial-analysis): 0.6 index
  • Design Arena 3d (other): 1032 elo · #107
  • Design Arena codecategories (other): 1055 elo · #112
  • Design Arena gamedev (other): 993 elo · #120
  • Design Arena website (other): 1067 elo · #112

Notes

Ministral 3 8B 2512 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Ministral 3 8B 2512 is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
5.1B ▼29.4%
Requests, last 7 days
2.3M
Tool calls, last 7 days
120K
Intelligence score
5.5
Average cost per request
1.2¢
Price per million tokens
$0.15 in · $0.15 out
01B2B19 Sept: 970M tokens, 690K requests20 Sept: 658M tokens, 375K requests21 Sept: 861M tokens, 421K requests22 Sept: 1B tokens, 468K requests23 Sept: 734M tokens, 456K requests24 Sept: 1.3B tokens, 579K requests25 Sept: 900M tokens, 490K requests26 Sept: 1.2B tokens, 606K requests27 Sept: 736M tokens, 460K requests28 Sept: 1B tokens, 571K requests29 Sept: 1.1B tokens, 545K requests30 Sept: 677M tokens, 425K requests1 Oct: 830M tokens, 634K requests2 Oct: 530M tokens, 336K requests3 Oct: 642M tokens, 347K requests4 Oct: 459M tokens, 252K requests5 Oct: 529M tokens, 284K requests6 Oct: 1.2B tokens, 353K requests7 Oct: 1.5B tokens, 323K requests8 Oct: 1.2B tokens, 416K requests9 Oct: 959M tokens, 335K requests10 Oct: 510M tokens, 266K requests11 Oct: 1.3B tokens, 377K requests12 Oct: 603M tokens, 254K requests13 Oct: 1.4B tokens, 393K requests14 Oct: 391M tokens, 283K requests15 Oct: 438M tokens, 325K requests16 Oct: 542M tokens, 331K requests17 Oct: 1.2B tokens, 402K requests18 Oct: 468M tokens, 285K requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct18 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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Intelligence Index: 5.5 (2026-10-18) ↗Coding Index: 9.7 (2026-10-18) ↗Agentic Index: 0.6 (2026-10-18) ↗
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