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Ministral 8B
Ministral 8B is an open-weight model from Mistral AI, released Dec 2, 2025. It ranks #326 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1191. It costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens, with a 256K-token context window.
- Developer
- Mistral AI
- Released
- Dec 2, 2025
- Context window
- 256K
- Price in / out, per 1M tokens
- $0.15 / $0.15
- Weights
- Open · MRL
- Inputs
- Text, Images
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool use
- Yes
- Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
- 86.3K
- Hugging Face likes
- 231
The rating LMArena published at each update since Nov 12, 2024. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.
LMArena, by category
| Leaderboard | Rating | Rank | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TextLMArena | 1191 | 326 / 351 | 4.8K |
| CodingLMArena | 1202 | 316 / 346 | 838 |
| MathLMArena | 1188 | 313 / 339 | 683 |
| Creative writingLMArena | 1175 | 321 / 349 | 678 |
| Instruction followingLMArena | 1161 | 329 / 351 | 1.9K |
| Hard promptsLMArena | 1191 | 318 / 351 | 1.3K |
| Multi-turnLMArena | 1166 | 327 / 349 | 916 |
| Long queriesLMArena | 1212 | 311 / 330 | 720 |
| ExpertLMArena | 1170 | 305 / 305 | 332 |
| Legal and governmentIndustries | 1211 | 314 / 325 | 324 |
| Medicine and healthcareIndustries | 1180 | 314 / 325 | 280 |
| Business and financeIndustries | 1173 | 321 / 344 | 572 |
| ChineseLanguages | 1194 | 312 / 328 | 478 |
LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.
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Questions
Who makes Ministral 8B?
Ministral 8B is made by Mistral AI, founded 2023 and based in Paris.
How much does Ministral 8B cost?
$0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.
What is Ministral 8B’s context window?
256K tokens (262,144).
How does Ministral 8B rank?
#326 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1191 (95% interval 1182–1200) from 4,781 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.
Is Ministral 8B open source?
Ministral 8B has open weights under the MRL license, downloadable from Hugging Face (mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512).