mistralai_ministral-3-8b-reasoning-2512-multimodal
A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
This model is the reasoning post-trained version, trained for reasoning tasks, making it ideal for math, coding and stem related use cases.
The Ministral 3 family is designed for edge deployment, capable of running on a wide range of hardware. Ministral 3 8B can even be deployed locally, capable of fitting in 24GB of VRAM in BF16, and less than 12GB of RAM/VRAM when quantized.
Key Features:
Ministral 3 8B consists of two main architectural components:
- 8.4B Language Model
- 0.4B Vision Encoder
The Ministral 3 8B Reasoning model offers the following capabilities:
- Vision: Enables the model to analyze images and provide insights based on visual content, in addition to text.
- Multilingual: Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic.
- System Prompt: Maintains strong adherence and support for system prompts.
- Agentic: Offers best-in-class agentic capabilities with native function calling and JSON outputting.
- Reasoning: Excels at complex, multi-step reasoning and dynamic problem-solving.
- Edge-Optimized: Delivers best-in-class performance at a small scale, deployable anywhere.
- Apache 2.0 License: Open-source license allowing usage and modification for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
- Large Context Window: Supports a 256k context window.
This gallery entry includes mmproj for multimodality and uses Unsloth recommended defaults.