Ministral 3

model
Mistral
Edge-optimized model family (3B, 8B, 14B) created via Cascade Distillation from Mistral Medium 3.1. 3 variants each (base, instruct, reasoning) = 9 models. 256K context. Image understanding. 14B closely matches Mistral Small 3.1 while 40%+ smaller. Apache 2.0.
Paper (arXiv)HuggingFace (3B)HuggingFace (8B)OpenRouter (3B)OpenRouter (8B)Artificial Analysis

Model Details

Architecture DENSE
AA Intelligence 16

Variants

Name Parameters Notes
Ministral 3 3B 3B AA Intelligence Index 11
Ministral 3 8B 8B AA Intelligence Index 15
Ministral 3 14B 14B AA Intelligence Index 16 (highest variant)

Paper

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