Using Mistral Ministral 3 8B on OpenRouter

Implementation guide · Ministral · MistralAI

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OpenRouter exposes Mistral Ministral 3 8B through model ID mistralai/ministral-8b-2512. 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 OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call mistralai/ministral-8b-2512 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.15/1M input, $0.15/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

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.

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Model Specs

Released2025-12-01
Parameters8B
Knowledge cutoff2023-10

Also available on(2)

AWS Bedrock$0.15/1MMistral AI Studio$0.15/1M
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Provider

OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA