Ministral 3 8B 2512

mistralai/ministral-8b-2512

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512, released on 2025‑12‑02 by MistralAI, accepts text and image inputs and produces text output. It supports tool usage, does not support reasoning,

  • tool use
  • structured outputs

At a glance

providermistralai
releasedDec 2, 2025
context262K
input / M$0.15

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
262K tokens
Max output
210K tokens
Input price
$0.15 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.15 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.015 / 1M tokens
Modalities
text, image → text
Knowledge cutoff
Released
Dec 2, 2025

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

Design Arena Coding
1084 Elo2026-07-28
Design Arena Coding
1084 Elo2026-07-27
Design Arena Coding
1084 Elo2026-07-30
Design Arena Coding
1084 Elo2026-07-29
Design Arena Coding
1083 Elo2026-07-31
Design Arena Coding
1083 Elo2026-08-02
Design Arena Coding
1082 Elo2026-08-05
Design Arena Coding
1083 Elo2026-08-01
Design Arena Coding
1081 Elo2026-08-09
Design Arena Coding
1083 Elo2026-08-03
Design Arena Coding
1082 Elo2026-08-04
Design Arena Coding
1078 Elo2026-08-14
Design Arena Coding
1082 Elo2026-08-06
Design Arena Coding
1081 Elo2026-08-10
Design Arena Coding
1082 Elo2026-08-07
Design Arena Coding
1072 Elo2026-08-18
Design Arena Coding
1081 Elo2026-08-08
Design Arena Coding
1072 Elo2026-08-15
Design Arena Coding
1081 Elo2026-08-11
Design Arena Coding
1080 Elo2026-08-12
Design Arena Coding
1078 Elo2026-08-13
Design Arena Coding
1071 Elo2026-08-19
Design Arena Coding
1077 Elo2026-08-27
Design Arena Coding
1071 Elo2026-08-20
Design Arena Coding
1072 Elo2026-08-16
Design Arena Coding
1069 Elo2026-09-05
Design Arena Coding
1072 Elo2026-08-17
Design Arena Coding
1078 Elo2026-08-21
Design Arena Coding
1078 Elo2026-08-22
Design Arena Coding
1078 Elo2026-08-23
Design Arena Coding
1077 Elo2026-08-28
Design Arena Coding
1078 Elo2026-08-24
Design Arena Coding
1078 Elo2026-08-25
Design Arena Coding
1078 Elo2026-08-26
Design Arena Coding
1069 Elo2026-09-06
Design Arena Coding
1077 Elo2026-08-29
Design Arena Coding
1077 Elo2026-08-30
Design Arena Coding
1077 Elo2026-08-31
Design Arena Coding
1077 Elo2026-09-01
Design Arena Coding
1076 Elo2026-09-02
Design Arena Coding
1073 Elo2026-09-03
Design Arena Coding
1072 Elo2026-09-04
Design Arena Website
1090 Elo2026-07-28
Design Arena Website
1090 Elo2026-07-30
Design Arena Website
1090 Elo2026-07-27
Design Arena Website
1090 Elo2026-07-29
Design Arena Website
1089 Elo2026-07-31
Design Arena Website
1089 Elo2026-08-02
Design Arena Website
1089 Elo2026-08-01
Design Arena Website
1088 Elo2026-08-05
Design Arena Website
1089 Elo2026-08-03
Design Arena Website
1087 Elo2026-08-09
Design Arena Website
1088 Elo2026-08-04
Design Arena Website
1085 Elo2026-08-14
Design Arena Website
1088 Elo2026-08-06
Design Arena Website
1088 Elo2026-08-07
Design Arena Website
1087 Elo2026-08-10
Design Arena Website
1087 Elo2026-08-08
Design Arena Website
1076 Elo2026-08-18
Design Arena Website
1087 Elo2026-08-11
Design Arena Website
1076 Elo2026-08-15
Design Arena Website
1086 Elo2026-08-12
Design Arena Website
1085 Elo2026-08-13
Design Arena Website
1076 Elo2026-08-19
Design Arena Website
1076 Elo2026-08-16
Design Arena Website
1076 Elo2026-08-20
Design Arena Website
1084 Elo2026-08-27
Design Arena Website
1076 Elo2026-08-17
Design Arena Website
1080 Elo2026-09-05
Design Arena Website
1085 Elo2026-08-21
Design Arena Website
1085 Elo2026-08-22
Design Arena Website
1085 Elo2026-08-23
Design Arena Website
1085 Elo2026-08-24
Design Arena Website
1085 Elo2026-08-28
Design Arena Website
1085 Elo2026-08-25
Design Arena Website
1085 Elo2026-08-26
Design Arena Website
1078 Elo2026-09-06
Design Arena Website
1084 Elo2026-08-29
Design Arena Website
1084 Elo2026-08-30
Design Arena Website
1084 Elo2026-08-31
Design Arena Website
1084 Elo2026-09-01
Design Arena Website
1083 Elo2026-09-02
Design Arena Website
1081 Elo2026-09-03
Design Arena Website
1080 Elo2026-09-04

LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference.

Open-weight model on Hugging Face.

Task evidence

How broad is the support?

Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.

  • Best LLM for Frontend & UIProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Design Arena UI or LiveBench Coding. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for CodingProvisional evidence

    24% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 8 of 8 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LMArena Text. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Cheapest Capable LLMProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LMArena Text. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Fast SummariesProvisional evidence

    14% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LMArena Text. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Value LLMProvisional evidence

    14% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LMArena Text. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 13% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Data Analysis or Route reliability. 2 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Code CompletionProvisional evidence

    13% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for TranslationProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Business WritingProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LMArena Creative Writing. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Reasoning. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Marketing CopyProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LMArena Creative Writing. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for SummarizationProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Creative WritingProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OCR & DocumentsProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LMArena Vision. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Reasoning or LMArena Vision. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LMArena Vision. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for WritingProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Grounded RAGProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from CRAG or FACTS Grounding. 2 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Charts & DiagramsProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LMArena Vision. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document ParsingProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LMArena Vision. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Reasoning. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 8% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LMArena Text. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LMArena Long Query. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Hermes AgentProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OpenHandsProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for GooseProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LMArena Document. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OpenClawProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Local LLM for CodingProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Competition MathProvisional evidence

    5% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Mathematics or LiveBench Reasoning. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Agentic CodingProvisional evidence

    5% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Design Arena Full-stack or Design Arena Web-apps. 8 of 8 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Autonomous AgentsProvisional evidence

    5% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Frontier-Bench or LiveBench Agentic Coding. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Math & ReasoningProvisional evidence

    5% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Mathematics or LiveBench Reasoning. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for AI AgentsProvisional evidence

    5% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Agentic Coding. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.

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