Mistral · Open weights
Ministral 8B
Ministral 8B is an efficient 8B parameter model from Mistral AI with vision capabilities, designed for edge deployment.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.15
- Output
- $0.15
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 32.8K
- Average output (7 days)
- 40 tokens
- Longer than 2% of 468 models
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Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
Intelligence Index
5.5
Better than 1% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
9.7Composite of the coding evaluations
Better than 4% of 168 scored models
Math Index
31.7Composite of the math evaluations
Better than 30% of 118 scored models
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
0.5%Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
Better than 5% of 173 scored models
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
0.0%Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
Better than 0% of 173 scored models
AA-Briefcasev1.1
77 EloAgentic knowledge work, rated head to head
Better than 0% of 166 scored models
GDPval-AAv2.1
213 EloEconomically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
Better than 1% of 187 scored models
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
0.8%Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
Better than 2% of 171 scored models
AA-LCRv1.1
25.7%Reasoning across long documents
Better than 10% of 309 scored models
MLCR-AA
0.0%Long-context reasoning over medical records
Better than 0% of 121 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
4.3%Expert-level questions across academic fields
Better than 10% of 323 scored models
GPQA Diamond
47.1%Graduate-level science questions
Better than 7% of 291 scored models
MMLU-Pro
64.2%Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
Better than 12% of 132 scored models
IFBench
29.1%Following precise output instructions
Better than 5% of 215 scored models
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
0.0%Practical software engineering in a terminal
Better than 0% of 171 scored models
SciCode
20.7%Scientific computing in Python
Better than 1% of 174 scored models
LiveCodeBench
30.3%Recent competitive programming problems
Better than 20% of 129 scored models
Math
AIME 2025
31.7%Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
Better than 30% of 118 scored models
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
4.5%Earlier terminal task suite
Better than 10% of 212 scored models
τ²-Bench Telecom
26.6%Tool use in a customer-support simulation
Better than 16% of 214 scored models
AA-LCR (unversioned)
25.7%Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
Better than 10% of 309 scored models
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistralai/ministral-8b-2512",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistralai/ministral-8b-2512",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Mistral
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