Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-BF16

Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16

The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.

This model is the instruct post-trained version, fine-tuned for instruction tasks, making it ideal for chat and instruction based use cases.

The Ministral 3 family is designed for edge deployment, capable of running on a wide range of hardware. Ministral 3 3B can even be deployed locally, capable of fitting in 16GB of VRAM in BF16, and less than 8GB of RAM/VRAM when quantized.

We provide a no-loss FP8 version here, you can find other formats and quantizations in the Ministral 3 - Additional Checkpoints collection.

Learn more in our blog post and paper.

Key Features

Ministral 3 3B consists of two main architectural components:

• 3.4B Language Model
• 0.4B Vision Encoder

The Ministral 3 3B Instruct 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.

Use Cases

Ideal for lightweight, real-time applications on edge or low-resource devices, such as:

• Image captioning
• Text classification
• Real-time efficient translation
• Data extraction
• Short content generation
• Fine-tuning and specialization
• And more...

Bringing advanced AI capabilities to edge and distributed environments for embedded systems.

Ministral 3 Family

Other formats available here.

Benchmark Results

We compare Ministral 3 to similar sized models.

Reasoning

Instruct

Base

License

This model is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

You must not use this model in a manner that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any third party’s rights, including intellectual property rights.