Text · Released Dec 2025
Mistral Ministral 3 8B
Mistral's efficient 8B dense edge model (Apache 2.0) for on-device chat, reasoning, and tool use.
Mistral's Ministral 3 8B is an open-weight text model. It is multimodal: alongside a text prompt it accepts images, then replies with generated text. It runs entirely on your own hardware through Ollama: no API key and no per-use fees.
Supported OS
macOSWindowsLinux
Minimum machine configuration
8 GB RAM · 256K ctx · text+image · CPU/GPU
Download size · ~6.0 GB
Specs
- Released
- 9 months ago (Dec 2025)
- Pricing
- Free, runs on your hardware
- Inputs
- Text, Images
About the creator
Mistral
Mistral is a Paris-based lab that ships fast, efficient open-weight language models with strong reasoning per parameter.
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