Mistral: Ministral 8B Instruct
Ministral 8B Instruct is a language model from Mistral released on Oct 16, 2024. It reads text and writes text, with a 128K token context window and up to 4K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $0.15, 0% less than fresh input.
It supports tool calling and prompt caching, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.15 / $0.15 per 1M
- Context
- 128K
- Max output
- 4K
- Released
- Oct 16, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Ministral 8B Instruct 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 | $0.15 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.15 / 1M tokens | |
| Cached input (read) | $0.15 / 1M tokens | 0% off input |
| Cache write | $0.15 / 1M tokens |
What Ministral 8B Instruct 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 Instruct through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Temperature
temperature
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Ministral 8B Instruct questions
How much does the Ministral 8B Instruct API cost?
$0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.15. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Ministral 8B Instruct?
128,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 4,000 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Does Ministral 8B Instruct support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Ministral 8B Instruct 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 Instruct released?
Oct 16, 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Ministral 8B Instruct?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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