Models / Mistral AI/ Ministral 3 14B 2512

Ministral 3 14B 2512

Mistral AI · released Oct 31, 2025 · mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512

Input: text and images. Output: text.InputOutput
Type
Open weightsApache License 2.0
Params
13.9B
Context
262K

about 197K words of context

Our take

Written Aug 3, 2026

Ministral 3 is a compact downloadable model from Mistral AI that accepts text and images and handles up to 262,144 tokens in a single request. Its Apache licence allows commercial use and redistribution, and both tracked providers charge the same flat rate per million tokens.

Who should pick it

Pick this when you want predictable costs with no input-output price gap, or when you need a permissive licence for commercial deployment or redistribution. Use it for long-context work up to 262,144 tokens in a compact model. Skip it if you need measured quality scores to compare against peers, or if you require verified throughput on every provider you might use.

The case for it

  • Apache 2.0 licence allows commercial use, fine-tuning and redistribution without restriction.
  • Identical pricing across both tracked providers removes arbitrage complexity.
  • 262,144-token request limit is long for its parameter class.

The case against it

  • No benchmark scores in our data — no measured chat, coding, reasoning or other task quality.
  • Throughput is unverified on OpenRouter; only Mistral direct lists a figure.
  • No disclosed active parameter count, so efficiency claims cannot be checked.
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How good is it?

We hold no score for this model.

We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up Ministral 3 14B 2512 — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.

The boards we watch →

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Can you run it yourself?

Fits in memory
weights load entirely on the card
Spills to system RAM
some weights offload; much slower
Too large
will not load even with offload
est
size is calculated; the verdict could change by 10%

Comfortable fit

A card many people ownFits in memory

GeForce RTX 4090 · 24 GB

Weights at Q4_K_M8.8 / 24 GBest
Spare memory12.2 GB spare
Usable context66K of 262K
Decode speed96 tok/sest

Room to spare. 12.2 GB spare means a 10% error in the size would not change the answer.

One step upFits in memory

GeForce RTX 5090 · 32 GB

Weights at Q4_K_M8.8 / 32 GBest
Spare memory20.2 GB spare
Usable context66K of 262K
Decode speed170 tok/sest

Room to spare. 20.2 GB spare means a 10% error in the size would not change the answer.

On a MacFits in memory

Apple M1 (8-core GPU) · 16 GB

Weights at Q4_K_M8.8 / 16 GBest
Spare memory1.4 GB spare
Usable context8K of 262K
Decode speed6 tok/sest

Room to spare. 1.4 GB spare means a 10% error in the size would not change the answer.

Your hardware
Checking your profile…

Memory use by level

Against a 24 GB card.

Q4_K_M
recommended
8.8 GBest
Fits in memory
Q5_K_M
10.3 GBest
Fits in memory
Q8_0
15.4 GBest
Fits in memory

All 3 sizes here are calculated, not measured. We hold no measured file for this model, so each size comes from the parameter count and every verdict above inherits that uncertainty.

Check against your own machine → · All 71 devices, with every size →

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Or rent it from someone else

Cheapest published offer

Cheapest of 2 live listings. Picked at the widest standard context we hold, within one quantisation slice, so the numbers beside it are a price one host actually charges.

per 1M tokens
$0.20 in / $0.20 out
Context served
262K
Throughput
Not measured
Current provider offers with price, context and prompt-privacy answers
ProviderIn / out per 1M tokensContextThroughputTrains on promptsLogs promptsZero retention
OpenRouter$0.20 / $0.20262Knot measuredUnknownUnknownUnknown
Mistral AI$0.20 / $0.20262K67 tok/sNoYes30 daysUnknown

Across the 2 listings we hold: 1 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.

What each host's API supports

From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.

Supported
Not supported
Not published
host gave no parameter list
API features per host
ProviderTool callingJSON outputStrict schema
OpenRouter
Mistral AI

Tool calling: 2 of 2 listings say yes. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 2 of 2 listings say yes.

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Models people weigh against Ministral 3 14B 2512

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When we formed this view

Dates behind this page

Jul 26, 2026ListedListed on LLMapfirst indexed by our pipeline
Oct 31, 2025AnnouncedMinistral 3 14B 2512 announced by Mistral AI

Prices last checked 3d ago

What we do not know about this model yet

  • We hold no measured file for it, so all 3 sizes on this page are calculated from the parameter count.
  • No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
  • Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
  • 1 of 2 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
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Licence and identifiers

What the licence allowsApache License 2.0, what it allows commercially, and the identifiers you need to pull this model — its Hugging Face repo, our slug and a machine-readable card.

Licence

Apache License 2.0

permissiveCommercial use allowed

Fully permissive: commercial use, redistribution, and derivatives allowed. Requires attribution and a copy of the license. Includes an express patent grant.

Identifiers

Architecture
Dense
Modality record
text+image->text
Catalogue slug
mistralai-ministral-3-14b-2512

Machine-readable model card (omc.json) →

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