# Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)

Provider: mistralai  
Category: llm  
Model ID: `mistralai/ministral-8b-2512:batch`

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

## Specs

- Context length: 262144 tokens
- Max output: 209715 tokens
- Modalities: text, image
- Released: 2025-12-02

## Pricing

- Input: $0.07 per million tokens
- Output: $0.07 per million tokens

## Providers

- **mistralai** — ctx 262144, input $0.07/M, output $0.07/M

## Verdict

Ministral 3 8B is Mistral's compact multimodal model with a 256K context window at $0.07/Mtok flat rate. It handles text and image inputs efficiently for teams needing vision capabilities without the cost of larger models. The 8B parameter count means faster inference and lower memory overhead, but expect reduced reasoning depth compared to 70B+ alternatives. Reach for this when you need multimodal understanding at scale on a tight budget, not when accuracy is mission-critical.

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Last verified: 2026-10-19T02:30:34.239Z  
Canonical URL: https://switchy.build/directory/models/ministral-8b-2512-batch