Does Ministral 3 8B support zero data retention?

Not by default. See the per-route data-handling section for each route's logging stance and retention window.

Where is Ministral 3 8B hosted?

Ministral 3 8B runs on EU hosting routes through the Opper gateway, with contractually enforced residency on supported providers.

Is Ministral 3 8B trained on prompts and outputs?

No. Every hosting route for Ministral 3 8B is configured so customer prompts and outputs are not used to train models by default.

Is a GDPR DPA available for Ministral 3 8B?

Yes. A GDPR Data Processing Agreement is available on at least one route serving Ministral 3 8B. Contact hello@opper.ai to receive it.

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.

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Key info

Input

Output

Features

Context window

256K

Max output

Input price

$0.15 /1M

Output price

$0.15 /1M

EU residency available
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 — full data-handling detail per route below.

Provider	Region	Zero data retention	Training	Input	Output
Mistral	EU	Not by default	No	$0.15	$0.15

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.

Mistral — France🇫🇷

Zero data retention is not on by default — abuse monitoring, 30-day retention. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention: Not by default — abuse monitoring, 30-day retention. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: Abuse monitoring (30-day retention)
Moderation: Not established
Caching: Not established
Subprocessor access: Not established
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: Not applicable — 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 — 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 a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

1import OpenAI from "openai";
2
3const client = new OpenAI({
4  apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
5  baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
6});
7
8const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
9  model: "mistral/ministral-8b-2512",
10  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
11});
12console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);