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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)

Source description (English)

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

Overview

Model specifications

Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
209,715 tokens
Architecture
text+image->text
Tokenizer
Mistral
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$0.075
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.075
per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.0075
per 1M tokens
API

Model configuration

Default parameters

temperature
0.3
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

This submits an asynchronous batch using the base model ID. A job ID confirms submission, not completion.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/beta/batches \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"endpoint":"/v1/chat/completions","model":"mistralai/ministral-8b-2512","requests":[{"custom_id":"request-1","body":{"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}}]}'

# Replace JOB_ID with the returned id to check progress.
curl --fail-with-body "https://openrouter.ai/api/beta/batches/JOB_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY"
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
textimage
Output
text
API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltymax_tokenspresence_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_p
Available providers

1 Provider

Checked: September 10, 2026

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OpenRouter

Mistral

Not provided
Context
262K
Maximum output
210K
Input
$0.075
Output
$0.075
Cache read
$0.0075
Cache write
Not provided
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