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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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.
| Provider | Region | Zero data retention | Training | Input | Output | Cache read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU | No | $0.15 | $0.15 | Input price |
Ministral 3 8B runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.
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Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.
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.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.
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.
Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.
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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