Model garden Router · warm Dedicated · on request

Ministral 3 8B

Instantly via the EU router or as a dedicated GPU deployment. Data stays in Europe.

Ministral 3 8B is an multimodal language model from Mistral with a 262K-token context window, hosted on EU GPUs via an OpenAI-compatible API.

mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
text+image->text · open weights · sovereign EU
Runs on EU infrastructure operated by European companies; US marketplace capacity is never part of this chain. Full chain
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Parameters
262K
Context window
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Minimum VRAM
POST /api/v1/chat/completions 200 OK

Specifications

Context window 262,144 tokens
Modality text+image->text

Pricing

Shared router · per token
€0.17
Input (per 1M tokens)
€0.17
Output (per 1M tokens)
Dedicated GPU · per hour
On request
Dedicated deployment, from — GB of VRAM. Billed per GPU-hour.

Shared EU router, pay-per-token, scale-to-zero. Dedicated GPU deployments are billed hourly, see pricing.

Bench index

Bench is our quality index for every model, 0 to 100. It rests on the Epoch AI Capabilities Index (about 40 benchmarks), completed with LiveBench, and is refreshed every morning.

~52.2 / 100 · Estimate

No public benchmark yet: estimated from size and release date.

Range 40.6 to 63.8

Sources: Epoch AI ↗ · LiveBench ↗ · Refreshed daily, last on 25-09-2026

No public benchmark yet: estimated from size and release date.

Call it now

Drop-in replacement for OpenAI: change only the base URL and API key. The Anthropic format (/v1/messages) is supported too.

curl https://hostyourai.com/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer hyai-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Frequently asked questions

Can I run Ministral 3 8B in the EU?

Yes. HostYourAI runs Ministral 3 8B on GPUs in European datacenters via vLLM. Prompts and outputs never leave the EU and there is no US cloud provider in the chain.

Is hosting Ministral 3 8B GDPR-compliant?

Yes. All processing happens inside the EU, a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available and the subprocessor list is public. Open-source weights also mean: no training on your data.

How much does Ministral 3 8B cost?

Via the shared EU router you pay €0.17 per million input tokens and €0.17 per million output tokens, with no fixed costs. For high volume or isolation you can also run Ministral 3 8B as a dedicated hourly GPU instance.

Is the API OpenAI-compatible?

Yes. You use the standard OpenAI SDKs with a custom base URL (https://hostyourai.com/api/v1). The Anthropic Messages API is supported as a drop-in as well.

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