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Ministral 8B benchmarks, pricing and specs

Ministral 8B is a Mistral AI model released on October 16, 2024 that takes text input and produces text. It is now listed as a legacy model. Its price is not published and accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context. It scores 1238 Elo on Arena Text (Arena, measured October 8, 2026).

Context window
128K
Arena Text
1238 Elo

Data verified October 12, 2026 · Dataset 2026-10-12

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Key facts

Provider
Mistral AI
Model family
Ministral
Release date
October 16, 2024
Status
Legacy
Access
API and open weights
API model id
Not reported
Context window
128,000 tokens
Max output
Not reported
Input
text
Output
text
Task families
text
Declared capabilities
reasoning

Ministral 8B pricing

UnitPrice (USD)TierAppliesSource
1M input tokensNot reportedstandardCurrent
1M output tokensNot reportedstandardCurrent
1M input tokensNot reportedcachedCurrent

Independent benchmark results

Scores come from independent evaluators that ran the model themselves, pinned to a dated snapshot. Rank is among current models in the same snapshot. Mistral AI's own launch figures are listed under strengths with the publisher named, because they are not measured the same way.

BenchmarkScoreRankMeasuredSource
Arena Text1238 EloNot rankedOctober 8, 2026Arena · 2026-10-12
GPQA Diamond27.1%Not rankedOctober 12, 2026Epoch AI · 2026-10-12

Strengths, cautions and best uses

Strengths

  • Ministral 8B records both API and open-weight access for text inputs and a published 128,000-token context window

Cautions

  • This record is marked legacy; confirm current availability and migration requirements before adoption

Best for

  • Historical compact open-weight or API text deployments

Alternatives to Ministral 8B

The closest current textmodels by price. The cheapest model that scores as well or better is listed first; failing that, the cheapest one within 3% of the benchmark's scale.

Ministral 8B FAQ

What is the context window of Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context. That ranks #40 of 45 current text models by context length.

How does Ministral 8B score on independent benchmarks?

Ministral 8B scores 1238 Elo on Arena Text (Arena, measured October 8, 2026) and 27.1% on GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI, measured October 12, 2026). These are independent evaluations, not Mistral AI's own launch figures.

Is Ministral 8B open source or API only?

Ministral 8B is available both through Mistral AI's API and as open weights you can run yourself.

What are the best alternatives to Ministral 8B?

The closest current alternatives by price and measured performance are DeepSeek-R1 (160 points higher on Arena Text, 1398 vs 1238), Gemini 2.5 Pro (207 points higher on Arena Text, 1445 vs 1238), GPT-4.1 (177 points higher on Arena Text, 1415 vs 1238) and GPT-4.1 mini (145 points higher on Arena Text, 1383 vs 1238).

Sources

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Van Data Team. "Ministral 8B Benchmarks, Pricing and Specs." AI Model Benchmark Dataset 2026-10-12. https://vandatateam.com/ai-model-benchmarks/ministral-8b

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