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mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Base-2512

Mistral models →Hugging Face ↗
Parameters8.9B
Context256K
Input → output–
Licenseapache-2.0
PrecisionBF16
ArchitectureMistral3ForConditionalGeneration
ReleasedOct 31, 2025
Downloads8K

Other sizes and formats in the family

ModelParamsPrecisionDownloads
mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512-GGUFgguf14B–30.9K
mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512fp813.9BF8_E4M3118.9K
mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Base-251213.9BBF163.6K
mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512-BF1613.9BBF1681.1K
mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512fp88.9BF8_E4M3118.6K
mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512-BF168.9BBF1635.4K
mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512-GGUFgguf8B–43.1K
mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Base-25124.3BBF1610.9K
mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-BF164.3BBF1645.4K
mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512fp83.8BF8_E4M3102.7K
mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-GGUFgguf3B–44.8K
mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-ONNXquantized3B–583

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mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512fp88.9BF8_E4M3118.6K
mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512-BF168.9BBF1635.4K
mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-25128.9BBF1613K

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