What are the hardware requirements for Ministral 3 8B Base 2512?

Ministral 3 8B Base 2512 requires approximately 17.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Ministral 3 8B Base 2512 and how large is it?

Ministral 3 8B Base 2512 is developed by unsloth, a model with 8b 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 8B Base 2512?

Ministral 3 8B Base 2512 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Ministral 3 8B Base 2512 by unsloth — VRAM 17.8GB

Name: Ministral 3 8B Base 2512
Author: unsloth

Ministral 3 8B Base 2512 is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.8GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Ar Base model:finetune:mistralai/... Base model:mistralai/ministral... De En Es Fr It Ja Ko Mistral-common Mistral3 Nl Pt Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth Vllm Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Ministral-3-8B-Base-2512

Ministral 3 8B Base 2512 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ministral 3 8B Base 2512
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Ministral-3-8B-Base-2512
Base Model(s)	Ministral 3 8B Base 2512 mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Base-2512
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-11
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	mistral3
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 2.9 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en fr es de it pt nl zh ja ko ar
Model Architecture	Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.0.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Ministral 3 8B Base 2512

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KomdigiITS 8B DFK CPT	0K / 17.8 GB	181	0
Ministral 3 8B Instruct 2512	0K / 16.9 GB	211	2
...Instruct 2512 Unsloth Bnb 4bit	0K / 7.4 GB	2984	1
...al 3 8B Instruct 2512 Bnb 4bit	0K / 6.8 GB	255	0
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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/Ministral-3-8B-Base-2512.