Mistral: Ministral 8B
Ministral 8B is a language model from Mistral released on Oct 1, 2024. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 262K token context window and up to 128K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
2 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.10 / $0.10 per 1M
- Context
- 262K
- Max output
- 128K
- Released
- Oct 1, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Oct 2024
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Ministral 8B pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.10 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.10 / 1M tokens |
Ministral 8B providers
2 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral First party | $0.10 | $0.10 | – | 262K | 128K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.10 | $0.10 | – | 262K | 128K |
What Ministral 8B costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Ministral 8B through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Temperature
temperature
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Ministral 8B questions
How much does the Ministral 8B API cost?
$0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Ministral 8B?
262,144 tokens of input, and it can write up to 128,000 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Ministral 8B?
2 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Ministral 8B support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Ministral 8B open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Ministral 8B released?
Oct 1, 2024, with training data up to Oct 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.