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Ministral 3 14B
Mistral AI · Ministral 3 · released 2025-12-02 · data checked 2026-11-01
Ministral 3 14B is a 14B-parameter dense model from Mistral AI (Europe), released 2025-12-02 under the Apache-2.0 license. It scores 60.0 on the Small LM Index, #4 of 26 small models. It needs about 10.6 GB of memory at 4-bit with an 8K-token context and costs $0.20 per million tokens through the cheapest API provider.
Released as Base, Instruct and Reasoning checkpoints.
Benchmarks
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Not reported: estimated
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Specifications
- Lab
- Mistral AI (FR · Europe)
- Architecture
- Dense transformer
- Total parameters
- 14B
- Active parameters
- All (dense)
- Size class
- Small
- Context window
- 256K tokens
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Reasoning
- Hybrid (thinking on/off)
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Openness
- Open weights
- Memory to run
- ~10.6 GB at 4-bit, 8K context (more sizes)
- Hugging Face
- 294.8K downloads (30 days) · 175 likes
- API providers
- 1 on OpenRouter
- API price
- $0.20 in / $0.20 out per 1M (OpenRouter, 2026-11-03)
Compare with
- Ministral 3 14B vs Apriel 1.6 15B Thinker (14.9B, index 60.9)
- Ministral 3 14B vs Phi-4-reasoning-plus (14.7B, index 54.4)
- Ministral 3 14B vs Phi-4 (14.7B, index 44.7)
- Ministral 3 14B vs Gemma 3 12B (12.2B, index 28.4)
- Ministral 3 14B vs Gemma 4 12B (11.9B, index 56.9)
- Ministral 3 14B vs LLaDA2.2 mini (16.3B, index 29.7)
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Run it locally
Uses mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF (Q4_K_M). Swap the tag for another size: BF16, Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q8_0.
ollama run hf.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF:Q4_K_Mllama-server -hf mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF:Q4_K_Mvllm serve mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512Memory needed: weights, context cache and runtime buffers.
| Quantization | 4K context | 32K context | 256K context |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16-bit F16 | 29 GB | 34 GB | 71 GB |
| 8-bit Q8_0 | 16 GB | 21 GB | 58 GB |
| 4-bit Q4_K_M | 9.9 GB | 15 GB | 51 GB |