What are the hardware requirements for Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16?

Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16 requires approximately 7.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16 and how large is it?

Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16 is developed by mistralai, a model with 3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16?

Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16 by mistralai — VRAM 7.7GB, 256K context

Name: Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16
Author: mistralai

Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16 is an open-source language model by mistralai. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 7.7GB, Context: 256K, License: MNPL-0.1, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-BF16

Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 BF16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-BF16
Base Model(s)	Ministral 3 3B Base 2512 mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Base-2512
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	7.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	mistralai
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	7.7 GB 5.0 GB: 1-of-2 2.7 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en fr es de it pt nl zh ja ko ar
Model Architecture	MambaSSM
License	MNPL-0.1
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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