Benchmark analysis of Ministral 3 8B by Mistral across 32 sourced tests on BenchLM.
According to BenchLM.ai, Ministral 3 8B ranks #116 out of 123 models with an overall score of 32/100. While not a frontier model, it offers specific advantages depending on the use case.
Ministral 3 8B is a open weight model with a 128K token context window. It processes queries without explicit chain-of-thought reasoning, offering faster response times and lower token usage.
Ministral 3 8B sits inside the Ministral 3 8B family alongside Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning).
Its strongest category is Multilingual (#93), while its weakest is Knowledge (#117). This performance profile makes it a well-rounded choice across a range of tasks.
Creator
Mistral
Source Type
Open WeightReasoning
Non-ReasoningContext Window
128K
Overall Score
Arena Elo
1057
Ministral 3 8B ranks #116 out of 123 models with an overall score of 32. It is created by Mistral and features a 128K context window.
Ministral 3 8B ranks #117 out of 123 models in knowledge and understanding benchmarks with an average score of 28. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B ranks #110 out of 123 models in coding and programming benchmarks with an average score of 14.2. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B ranks #106 out of 123 models in mathematics benchmarks with an average score of 43.3. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B ranks #115 out of 123 models in reasoning and logic benchmarks with an average score of 36.1. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B ranks #117 out of 123 models in agentic tool use and computer tasks benchmarks with an average score of 28.9. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B ranks #116 out of 123 models in multimodal and grounded tasks benchmarks with an average score of 32.4. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B ranks #95 out of 123 models in instruction following benchmarks with an average score of 69. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B ranks #93 out of 123 models in multilingual tasks benchmarks with an average score of 61.7. There are stronger options in this category.
Yes, Ministral 3 8B is an open weight model created by Mistral, meaning it can be downloaded and run locally or fine-tuned for specific use cases.
Ministral 3 8B belongs to the Ministral 3 8B family. Related variants on BenchLM include Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning).
Ministral 3 8B has a context window of 128K, which determines how much text it can process in a single interaction.
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