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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

by Mistral

A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

Avg Score

67.2%

730 answers

Avg Latency

7.6s

289 runs

Pricing

$0.15

input

/

$0.15

output

per 1M tokens

Context

262K

tokens

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Quickstart

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import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "mistralai/ministral-8b-2512",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

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

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