Home › AI Models › Mistral AI › Mistral: Ministral 8B
Mistral AI

Mistral: Ministral 8B

Ministral 8B is an 8B parameter model featuring a unique interleaved sliding-window attention pattern for faster, memory-efficient inference. Designed for edge use cases, it supports up to 128k context length...

Context Window
128K tokens
Parameters
8B
Input Price
$0.11/1M
Output Price
$0.11/1M
Price Tier
budget
Provider
Mistral AI

How to Use Mistral: Ministral 8B

With CoreAI, you can start chatting with Mistral: Ministral 8B instantly — no separate subscription needed. CoreAI lets you chat with Mistral: Ministral 8B alongside 300+ other AI models from Mistral AI and other providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and more.

  1. Download the CoreAI app for iOS, Android, or use the Web App
  2. Select Mistral: Ministral 8B from the model selector
  3. Start chatting, comparing, or creating with AI

Mistral: Ministral 8B at a Glance

Mistral: Ministral 8B holds the #326 spot for context size out of 400 chat models in the CoreAI catalog — 128K tokens, roughly 96,000 words or 192 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #69 cheapest of 125 budget-tier models by input cost. It joined the catalog on 2024-10-17.

Mistral: Ministral 8B Compared to Its Closest Alternatives

SpecMistral: Ministral 8BMistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro
ProviderMistral AIMistral AIQwenIbm-granite
Input $/1M tokens$0.11$0.1$0.048$0.017
Output $/1M tokens$0.11$0.1$0.193$0.112
Context window128K131K128K131K
Reasoning modeNoNoNoNo
Image inputNoYesNoNo
Price tierbudgetbudgetbudgetbudget

Every model in this table is available on CoreAI — open the web app and run the same prompt through Mistral: Ministral 8B and Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 side by side to judge with your own eyes.

What Mistral: Ministral 8B Actually Costs in Practice

A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00016 on Mistral: Ministral 8B's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.006. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers Mistral: Ministral 8B and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.

More Mistral AI Models

Mistral AI

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 is a dense 128B instruction-following model from Mistral AI. It supports text and image inputs with text output, and is designed fo
262K standard
Mistral AI

Mistral: Mistral Small 4

Mistral Small 4 is the next major release in the Mistral Small family, unifying the capabilities of several flagship Mistral models into a single syst
262K budget
Mistral AI

Mistral: Devstral 2 2512

Devstral 2 is a state-of-the-art open-source model by Mistral AI specializing in agentic coding. It is a 123B-parameter dense transformer model suppor
262K standard
Mistral AI

Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512

The largest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 14B offers frontier capabilities and performance comparable to its larger Mistral Small 3.2 2
262K budget
Mistral AI

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512

A balanced model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 8B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
262K budget
Mistral AI

Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512

The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
131K budget

Frequently Asked Questions about Mistral: Ministral 8B

What is Mistral: Ministral 8B's context window?

Mistral: Ministral 8B handles 128K tokens of context — roughly 96,000 words, or about 192 pages of text in one conversation.

How much does Mistral: Ministral 8B cost?

Mistral: Ministral 8B's underlying rates are $0.11 per 1M input tokens and $0.11 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.

Can Mistral: Ministral 8B process images?

No — Mistral: Ministral 8B is text-only. If you need image understanding, its budget-tier peers with vision are listed in the comparison table above.

Does Mistral: Ministral 8B support reasoning or thinking mode?

No — Mistral: Ministral 8B answers directly without an extended reasoning phase, which usually means faster responses.

How can I use Mistral: Ministral 8B without an API key?

Open the CoreAI web app or the iOS/Android app, pick Mistral: Ministral 8B in the model selector, and chat — no API key, no per-token billing. One subscription covers Mistral: Ministral 8B and 300+ other models.

What are the best alternatives to Mistral: Ministral 8B?

The closest alternatives on CoreAI are Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512, Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507, IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.

Read More about Mistral: Ministral 8B

Try Mistral: Ministral 8B Now

Chat with Mistral: Ministral 8B and 300+ other AI models — all in one app.

Use Web App Download App →