Ministral 8B
Open Weights
Mistral AI
Mistral's edge-focused 8B model (October 2024), part of les Ministraux, built for on-device and low-latency inference with a 128K context window. It offers strong reasoning and instruction following for its size, suited to local assistants, function calling, and privacy-sensitive deployments.
Strengths
- Edge-focused 8B model with a 128K context window
- Strong reasoning and instruction following for its size
- Good fit for on-device and low-latency inference
- Function calling for local agentic use
Caveats
- Research license for weights (commercial license required for production)
- 8B capacity trails larger models on complex tasks
- Text-only (no vision or audio input)
- Vendor
- Mistral AI
- Context Window
- 131,072 tokens
- License
- Mistral Research License
- Release Date
- 2024-10-16
- Modalities
- text
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
Weights available under the Mistral Research License (commercial license available); also served via the Mistral API. Runs on-device at 8B scale.