Ministral 3B

About Ministral 3B

Ministral 3B is a 3B parameter model optimized for on-device and edge computing. It excels in knowledge, commonsense reasoning, and function-calling, outperforming larger models like Mistral 7B on most benchmarks. Supporting up to 128k context length, it’s ideal for orchestrating agentic workflows and specialist tasks with efficient inference.

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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Ministral 3B API

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistralai/ministral-3b",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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