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Mistral AI

Ministral 3 8B

Efficient open-weight text and vision model for lightweight workloads.

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Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .

Overall rank
#78
Tier
B
Score
64.3
Main category
Overall

Strengths

  • Very efficient for its capability level
  • Open-weight and easy to deploy locally
  • Text and vision support in a small footprint

Considerations

  • Limited headroom on complex reasoning tasks
  • Outperformed by larger models on most benchmarks

Price

Open weights, free to self-host

Shown for reference — price is not part of the score.

Score breakdown

Performance
62.0
55% of score
Reputation
62.0
35% of score
Recency
85.0
10% of score

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