Ministral 8B

Released
2025-06-01
Last refreshed
2026-11-10
Status
Researched 4d ago
DeprecatedOpen weightsCommercial use: not permittedClassificationJSON / Tool use

Ministral 8B is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.

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Specifications
Family
Ministral
Released
2025-06-01
Lifecycle
Retired December 31, 2025
Context
32K
Parameters
8B
Openness
Open weights
License
Mistral LicenseNot permitted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by

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Paris, France
Founded 2023
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.100
Input / 1M
$0.100

Cheapest of 3 routes · AWS Bedrock

About

Ministral 8B is MistralAI's Ministral model. It offers a 32K-token context window.

Providers(3)

Compare all 3

Compare API pricing across 3 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MBatch in / outCacheRoute
AWS Bedrock$0.100$0.100--
Serverless
Mistral AI Studio$0.150$0.150$0.050 / $0.050-
Serverless
Vercel AI Gateway$0.150$0.150-read $0.015
Serverless

Available via routers & gateways(11)

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor JSON / Tool use

Benchmark scores(2)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
11.1v4Observed 2026-04-14—
1175.0text creative_writing 2026-10-22Observed 2026-10-22
Configuration: Ministral 8B (2410)
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena Text arena, Creative Writing category (no style control), board published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, text config, latest split). Board entry 'Ministral 8B (2410)' (category creative_writing in text/latest-00000-of-00001.parquet): rank 321 of 416, rating 1174.5 (95% CI 1153.1-1196.0), 678 votes. LLM Reference model is lifecycle-deprecated; score kept as historical. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.