Multimodal

Ministral 3 8B Reasoning

Mistral AI's versatile 8 billion parameter model optimized for reasoning tasks

Command to Run on Jetson Model Details

Parameters 8B

Modalities

Text

Context Length 262K

License Apache 2.0

Precision

FP16

Serve the model

Start server

Choose module, then engine and optional parameters on the left, then copy the serve command by clicking the button on the right.

Command

Call the model over Web API

Copy a client command below and paste it into your terminal to make a Web API request to the model you just served.

curl -s http://${JETSON_HOST}:8000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="http://${JETSON_HOST}:8000/v1",
    api_key="not-needed",  # vLLM / llama.cpp typically do not enforce a key
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

Model Details

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Mistral AI’s Ministral 3 8B Reasoning is the default reasoning variant, balancing reasoning capability with efficiency.

Note: Ollama does not currently publish a separate tag for the Reasoning variant. The ministral-3:8b tag maps to the Instruct checkpoint. Use vLLM with the mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512 HuggingFace checkpoint for the Reasoning model.

The Ministral 3 Reasoning model offers the following capabilities:

Vision: Enables the model to analyze images and provide insights based on visual content, in addition to text.
Multilingual: Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic.
System Prompt: Maintains strong adherence and support for system prompts.
Agentic: Offers best-in-class agentic capabilities with native function calling and JSON outputting.
Edge-Optimized: Delivers best-in-class performance at a small scale, deployable anywhere.
Apache 2.0 License: Open-source license allowing usage and modification for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Large Context Window: Supports a 256k context window.