Mistral: Ministral 8B

mistral/ministral-8b

Created Mar 31, 2025131,072 context

$0.10/M input tokens$0.10/M output tokens

Ministral 8B is a state-of-the-art language model optimized for on-device and edge computing. Designed for efficiency in knowledge-intensive tasks, commonsense reasoning, and function-calling, it features a specialized interleaved sliding-window attention mechanism, enabling faster and more memory-efficient inference. Ministral 8B excels in local, low-latency applications such as offline translation, smart assistants, autonomous robotics, and local analytics.

The model supports up to 128k context length and can function as a performant intermediary in multi-step agentic workflows, efficiently handling tasks like input parsing, API calls, and task routing. It consistently outperforms comparable models like Mistral 7B across benchmarks, making it particularly suitable for compute-efficient, privacy-focused scenarios.

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Sample code and API for Ministral 8B

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In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
  base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
  api_key="<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  extra_headers={
    "HTTP-Referer": "<YOUR_SITE_URL>", # Optional. Site URL for rankings on openrouter.ai.
    "X-Title": "<YOUR_SITE_NAME>", # Optional. Site title for rankings on openrouter.ai.
  },
  extra_body={},
  model="mistral/ministral-8b",
  messages=[
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "What is the meaning of life?"
    }
  ]
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

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