Ministral 3 8B

by Mistral
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Mistral's efficient 8 billion parameter model delivers solid reasoning, world knowledge, and function-calling capabilities with a 128k token context window. Built for rapid inference and low memory overhead, Ministral 8B serves developers seeking a lightweight alternative to larger models while maintaining language understanding and instruction following. The model is succeeded by Ministral 3 8B (released December 2025), which expands context to 256k tokens, adds vision, and supports structured output. For new deployments, Ministral 3 8B is the recommended option.

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Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
128K
Max output
8K
Input price
$0.15 /1M
Output price
$0.15 /1M
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Ministral 3 8B runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below. Its route also sells flex and priority processing: the same model at another price, picked per request with service_tier. How service tiers work.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutputCache read
USNo$0.15$0.15Input price

Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=aws%2Fministral-8b

Uptime and availability

Ministral 3 8B runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

100%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. Set up a fallback chain.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Ministral 3 8B has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

AWS Bedrock — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
Always on, keeps nothing
Subprocessor access
No subprocessor reads content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Get started

Call Ministral 3 8B through the Opper gateway with one API key. Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs.

Ministral 3 8B is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "aws/ministral-8b",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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