Ministral 3B is Mistral AI's smallest production model, a 3B parameter edge-optimized architecture that benchmarks above the larger Mistral 7B at $0.1 per million input tokens.
import { streamText } from 'ai'
const result = streamText({ model: 'mistral/ministral-3b', prompt: 'Why is the sky blue?'})Mistral AI released Ministral 3B on October 1, 2024 as the most compact member of the Ministral edge family. Ministral 3B outperforms the older Mistral 7B, a model more than twice its parameter count, on most evaluation categories. Mistral AI attributes this to architectural refinements specific to the Ministral generation.
Ministral 3B ships with a context window of 128K tokens and supports function calling out of the box. That combination makes it a practical lightweight tool-dispatch agent in multi-step pipelines where a larger model would be wasteful for structured routing work.
Production use falls under the Mistral AI Commercial License.