How much does Ministral 8B cost?

Mistral has not published per-token API pricing for Ministral 8B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.

What is Ministral 8B's context window?

Ministral 8B supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is Ministral 8B open source?

Ministral 8B ships with open weights under the Mistral Research License license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.

When was Ministral 8B released?

Ministral 8B was released on Oct 16, 2024 by Mistral.

How much does Ministral 8B cost?

Mistral has not published per-token API pricing for Ministral 8B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.

What is Ministral 8B's context window?

Ministral 8B supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is Ministral 8B open source?

Ministral 8B ships with open weights under the Mistral Research License license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.

When was Ministral 8B released?

Ministral 8B was released on Oct 16, 2024 by Mistral.

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Ministral 8B

Mistral's 8B edge model, designed specifically for on-device and on-prem deployment.

UpdatedApr 30, 2026

Quick facts

Released: Oct 2024
Context: 128K tokens
Output / 1M: Pricing not published
License: Mistral Research License

About Ministral 8B

Ministral 8B is purpose-built for edge inference: optimised memory footprint, strong throughput on consumer GPUs, and a permissive license for commercial use within Mistral's offer terms.

For on-device chat and lightweight reasoning, Ministral 8B routinely tops blind-quality comparisons against other 8B-class models, particularly for European languages.

Benchmarks

Published scores from Mistral's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval

Python coding pass@1

MMLU

Broad academic knowledge

GPQA

Graduate-level reasoning

SWE-bench

Real software-engineering tasks

Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.

Capabilities

Strengths

Edge-optimized
Strong 8B-class quality

Tracked weaknesses

Research license restricts unmodified commercial deployment

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Mistral.

Per-token pricing not yet published for Ministral 8B. Check the official provider site for current tiers.

Call Ministral 8B from your code

Drop-in snippet for the Mistral SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "ministral-8b",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Best for

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Frequently asked

How much does Ministral 8B cost?
Mistral has not published per-token API pricing for Ministral 8B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.
What is Ministral 8B's context window?
Ministral 8B supports a context window of 128K tokens.
Is Ministral 8B open source?
Ministral 8B ships with open weights under the Mistral Research License license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.
When was Ministral 8B released?
Ministral 8B was released on Oct 16, 2024 by Mistral.

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