Ministral 3 8B Instruct 2512 BF16
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
This model is the instruct post-trained version, fine-tuned for instruction tasks, making it ideal for chat and instruction based use cases.
The Ministral 3 family is designed for edge deployment, capable of running on a wide range of hardware. Ministral 3 8B can even be deployed locally, capable of fitting in 24GB of VRAM in BF16, and less than 12GB of RAM/VRAM when quantized.
We provide a no-loss FP8 version
here, you can find other formats and quantizations in the
Ministral 3 - Additional Checkpoints collection.
Learn more in our
blog post and
paper.
Key Features
Ministral 3 8B consists of two main architectural components:
- 8.4B Language Model
- 0.4B Vision Encoder
The Ministral 3 8B Instruct model offers the following capabilities:
- Vision: Enables the model to analyze images and provide insights based on visual content, in addition to text.
- Multilingual: Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic.
- System Prompt: Maintains strong adherence and support for system prompts.
- Agentic: Offers best-in-class agentic capabilities with native function calling and JSON outputting.
- Edge-Optimized: Delivers best-in-class performance at a small scale, deployable anywhere.
- Apache 2.0 License: Open-source license allowing usage and modification for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
- Large Context Window: Supports a 256k context window.
Use Cases
Perfect for balanced performance in local or embedded systems, combining versatility with efficiency.
- Chat interfaces in constrained environments
- Local daily-driver AI assistant
- Image/document description and understanding
- Translation and content generation
- Specialized agentic use cases
- Fine-tuning and specialization
- And more...
Bringing advanced AI capabilities to resource-constrained environments.
Ministral 3 Family
| Model Name | Type | Precision | Link |
|---|
| Ministral 3 3B Base 2512 | Base pre-trained | BF16 | Hugging Face |
| Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 | Instruct post-trained | BF16 | Hugging Face |
| Ministral 3 3B Reasoning 2512 | Reasoning capable | BF16 | Hugging Face |
| Ministral 3 8B Base 2512 | Base pre-trained | BF16 | Hugging Face |
| Ministral 3 8B Instruct 2512 | Instruct post-trained | BF16 | Hugging Face |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | Reasoning capable | BF16 | Hugging Face |
| Ministral 3 14B Base 2512 | Base pre-trained | BF16 | Hugging Face |
| Ministral 3 14B Instruct 2512 | Instruct post-trained | BF16 | Hugging Face |
| Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 | Reasoning capable | BF16 | Hugging Face |
Other formats available
here.
Benchmark Results
We compare Ministral 3 to similar sized models.
Reasoning
| Model | AIME25 | AIME24 | GPQA Diamond | LiveCodeBench |
|---|
| Ministral 3 14B | 0.850 | 0.898 | 0.712 | 0.646 |
| Qwen3-14B (Thinking) | 0.737 | 0.837 | 0.663 | 0.593 |
| | | | |
| Ministral 3 8B | 0.787 | 0.860 | 0.668 | 0.616 |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking | 0.798 | 0.860 | 0.671 | 0.580 |
| | | | |
| Ministral 3 3B | 0.721 | 0.775 | 0.534 | 0.548 |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Thinking | 0.697 | 0.729 | 0.601 | 0.513 |
Instruct
| Model | Arena Hard | WildBench | MATH Maj@1 | MM MTBench |
|---|
| Ministral 3 14B | 0.551 | 68.5 | 0.904 | 8.49 |
| Qwen3 14B (Non-Thinking) | 0.427 | 65.1 | 0.870 | NOT MULTIMODAL |
| Gemma3-12B-Instruct | 0.436 | 63.2 | 0.854 | 6.70 |
| | | | |
| Ministral 3 8B | 0.509 | 66.8 | 0.876 | 8.08 |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | 0.528 | 66.3 | 0.946 | 8.00 |
| | | | |
| Ministral 3 3B | 0.305 | 56.8 | 0.830 | 7.83 |
| Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct | 0.438 | 56.8 | 0.900 | 8.01 |
| Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct | 0.163 | 42.2 | 0.786 | 6.36 |
| Gemma3-4B-Instruct | 0.318 | 49.1 | 0.759 | 5.23 |
Base
| Model | Multilingual MMLU | MATH CoT 2-Shot | AGIEval 5-shot | MMLU Redux 5-shot | MMLU 5-shot | TriviaQA 5-shot |
|---|
| Ministral 3 14B | 0.742 | 0.676 | 0.648 | 0.820 | 0.794 | 0.749 |
| Qwen3 14B Base | 0.754 | 0.620 | 0.661 | 0.837 | 0.804 | 0.703 |
| Gemma 3 12B Base | 0.690 | 0.487 | 0.587 | 0.766 | 0.745 | 0.788 |
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| Ministral 3 8B | 0.706 | 0.626 | 0.591 | 0.793 | 0.761 | 0.681 |
| Qwen 3 8B Base | 0.700 | 0.576 | 0.596 | 0.794 | 0.760 | 0.639 |
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| Ministral 3 3B | 0.652 | 0.601 | 0.511 | 0.735 | 0.707 | 0.592 |
| Qwen 3 4B Base | 0.677 | 0.405 | 0.570 | 0.759 | 0.713 | 0.530 |
| Gemma 3 4B Base | 0.516 | 0.294 | 0.430 | 0.626 | 0.589 | 0.640 |
License
This model is licensed under the
Apache 2.0 License.
You must not use this model in a manner that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any third party’s rights, including intellectual property rights.
