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Ministral 8B

Added Dec 4, 2025Open weights

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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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Ministral 8BMistralThis modelCohere: Command R+cohereRemove
ProviderMistralcohere
Discovery tierOpen weightsBalanced
AddedDec 4, 2025Jan 1, 2024
Limits
Context window262.14KBest128K
Max output32.77KBest4.1K
Average output40 tokens146 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.15Best$2.86
Output$0.15Best$14.25
Performance
Request success (24h)100.0%—
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index5.5Best5.3
Coding Index9.7—
Math Index31.7—
Capabilities
Reasoning effort——

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Ministral 8B
  • Cohere: Command R+

Intelligence Index

  • Ministral 8B5.5
  • Cohere: Command R+5.3

Ministral 8B: Better than 1% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • Ministral 8B: 9.7
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • Ministral 8B: 31.7
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Ministral 8B: 0.5%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Ministral 8B: 0.0%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Ministral 8B: 77 Elo
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Ministral 8B: 213 Elo
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Ministral 8B: 0.8%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Ministral 8B: 25.7%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Ministral 8B: 0.0%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Ministral 8B: 4.3%
    • Cohere: Command R+: 4.6%Top

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Ministral 8B: 47.1%Top
    • Cohere: Command R+: 32.3%

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • Ministral 8B: 64.2%Top
    • Cohere: Command R+: 43.2%

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Ministral 8B: 29.1%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Ministral 8B: 0.0%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Ministral 8B: 20.7%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • Ministral 8B: 30.3%Top
    • Cohere: Command R+: 12.2%

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • Ministral 8B: 31.7%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • AIME

    Competition mathematics

    • Ministral 8B: —
    • Cohere: Command R+: 0.7%

  • MATH-500

    Competition math problems

    • Ministral 8B: —
    • Cohere: Command R+: 27.9%

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Ministral 8B: 4.5%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Ministral 8B: 26.6%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Ministral 8B: 25.7%
    • Cohere: Command R+: —

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.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 28.5%
  • 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.

Read the quickstart
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)

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