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Ministral 3 8B 2512 - Model - OpenSmartRoute
Modelv1.0.0
Ministral 3 8B 2512
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
Reference model card from the OpenRouter listing - model mistralai/ministral-8b-2512. Prices are per million tokens as listed; ratings and installs below are from this marketplace.
Ministral 3 8B 2512
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
Facts
Vendor
Mistral AI
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
209,715 tokens
Input price
$0.15 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.15 / 1M tokens
Input
text, image
Output
text
Tool calling
yes
Structured outputs
yes
Reasoning
no
Open weights
mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
Endpoint: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 (OpenAI-compatible), model mistralai/ministral-8b-2512
Use it
Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.
# after Install: the listing is in your workspace's routing pool - nothing else to configure
curl -s -X POST https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/route -H 'Authorization: Bearer $OSR_API_KEY' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"text": "...", "plan": true}'
# or pin it on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint: {"model": "model-mistralai-ministral-8b-2512", ...}
Manifest
An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.
model-mistralai-ministral-8b-2512.ocm.jsonjson
{
"ocm": "1",
"id": "model-mistralai-ministral-8b-2512",
"kind": "llm",
"name": "Ministral 3 8B 2512",
"description": "A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.",
"publisher": "Mistral AI",
"version": "1.0.0",
"capabilities": {
"domains": [
"general"
],
"tags": [
"llm",
"mistralai",
"openrouter",
"open-weights",
"tool-calling",
"image",
"models"
],
"languages": [
"en"
],
"modalities": [
"text",
"image"
],
"supports_tools": true,
"supports_streaming": true,
"context_window": 262144
},
"quality_prior": 0.055,
"examples": [
"A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities."
],
"primary": false,
"metadata": {
"source": {
"provider": "models",
"ref": "1764681654",
"url": "https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/ministral-8b-2512",
"key": "mistralai/ministral-8b-2512",
"catalogue": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
},
"model": "mistralai/ministral-8b-2512",
"pricing": {
"input_usd_per_1m": 0.15,
"output_usd_per_1m": 0.15,
"cache_read_usd_per_1m": 0.015
},
"max_output_tokens": 209715,
"output_modalities": [
"text"
],
"hugging_face_id": "mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512",
"created": 1764681654,
"benchmarks": {
"intelligence_index": 5.5,
"coding_index": 9.7,
"agentic_index": 0.6,
"hub_downloads": 70414,
"hub_downloads_total": 1113786,
"hub_likes": 203,
"hub_trending": 1,
"osr_index": 23.4,
"osr_coverage": 0.4
}
},
"cost": {
"usd_per_1k_tokens": 0.00015
},
"endpoints": [
{
"protocol": "openai",
"url": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
}
]
}
Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/model-mistralai-ministral-8b-2512/manifest?version=1.0.0
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