Using Mistral Ministral 3 8B on AWS Bedrock

Implementation guide · Ministral · MistralAI

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AWS Bedrock exposes Mistral Ministral 3 8B through model ID mistral-ministral-3-8b. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at AWS Bedrock and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the AWS Bedrock SDK or REST API to call mistral-ministral-3-8b — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.15/1M input, $0.15/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install boto3
API key
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
Model ID
mistral-ministral-3-8b

Use Amazon Bedrock model IDs, e.g. "anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0" for on-demand, or cross-region inference profile IDs like "us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-7-20251101-v1:0". These differ from the public model slug.

import boto3

# Reads AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION from env
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
response = client.converse(
    modelId="mistral-ministral-3-8b",
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": [{"text": "Hello"}]
    }]
)
print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])

Pricing on AWS Bedrock

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.15
Output tokens$0.15

Capabilities

VisionMultimodal

About Mistral Ministral 3 8B

Mistral Ministral 3 8B is MistralAI's Ministral model. Its knowledge cutoff is 2023-10.

Model Specs

Released2025-12-01
Parameters8B
Knowledge cutoff2023-10

Provider

AWS Bedrock

Amazon Web Services

Seattle, Washington, United States