Ministral 3 8B

by Mistral

Mistral's efficient 8 billion parameter model combines text and vision understanding with support for function calling and structured outputs, backed by a 256k token context window. Released December 2025, Ministral 3 8B is built for edge and local deployment while maintaining strong performance across reasoning, commonsense understanding, and instruction following. Designed specifically for on-device and edge scenarios, the model pairs an 8.4B language model with a 0.4B vision encoder. Unlike its predecessor, Ministral 3 8B adds vision understanding, making it a multimodal edge solution that supports dozens of languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
256K
Max output
8K
Input price
$0.15 /1M
Output price
$0.15 /1M
  • EU residency available
  • Zero data retention via Enterprise
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Ministral 3 8B runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance β€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
MistralEUEnterpriseNo$0.15$0.15

Training posture across routes: No training on prompts by default.

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.

Mistral β€” FranceπŸ‡«πŸ‡·

Zero data retention is available via Opper Enterprise contract. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Available via Opper Enterprise contract.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring (30-day retention)
Third-party access
Provider may share with subprocessors / partners
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable β€” data stays in EU

Get started

Call Ministral 3 8B through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly β€” Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into your coding agent β€” Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more β€” 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: "mistral/ministral-8b-2512",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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