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Ministral 3 14B

Available on OpenRouterOn OpenRouterAvailable nowGenerally availableCan run on your own serversOpen weights

Ministral 3 14B is made by Mistral AI. We don't have enough test results yet to rank it. It's cheap to use. Its makers have published it, so you can run it on your own servers.

Dense 13.5B LM + 0.4B vision encoder, Apache 2.0, 256K context; FP8 instruct fits in 24GB VRAM (card). Base (Ministral-3-14B-Base-2512) and Reasoning variants published; also 8B and 3B sizes. OpenRouter ~$0.20/$0.20; Mistral list price not re-verified.

Writing & creativity
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Research & analysis
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Coding
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Price
Cheap$0.20 / $0.20
Price per 1M (blended)Blended / 1M
$0.20
MemoryContext
262K
Longest answerMax output
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Test resultsResults
9 (9 independent9 indep.)
Out sinceReleased
2 Dec 2025
Made byVendor
Mistral AI
UnderstandsInputs
text, image

Scores are out of 100 for each area, compared with every model we track; “#” is its rank. Context is how much text it can read at once (1M is roughly 700,000 words). Blended price mixes the cost of what you send and what it writes back.

Thinking levels

Reasoning settings

You can't choose how long this one thinks.

No adjustable reasoning setting listed.

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Links

Using it through OpenRouter

On OpenRouter

OpenRouter is a service that gives access to many AI models in one place. This model is listed there as mistralai/ministral-14b-2512.

Route it as mistralai/ministral-14b-2512 at $0.20 in / $0.20 out per 1M tokens, 262K context. Listed since 2 Dec 2025.

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Run it yourself

Self-hosting

On your own servers,Licence, sizeunder your own control.and hardware.

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LicenceLicence
Apache-2.0
OK for business useCommercial use
Yes
SizeParams (total / active)
14B
Can be trained furtherBase model
Yes ↗

Hardware you'd need

Hardware tier & memory

Runs on a powerful laptop or workstation.

≤ 24 GB at 4-bit (one consumer GPU / 32 GB Mac). Weights ≈ 15 GB at 8-bit, 8 GB at 4-bit (+10–30% for KV cache).

Languages: Languages: Dozens incl. en, fr, es, de, it, pt, nl, zh, ja, ko, ar (Swedish not listed). EuroEval Swedish: Base 1.99, Instruct 2.13.

Training it further: Fine-tuning: Card lists 'Fine-tuning and specialization' as a use case; base checkpoint published (no recipe in card).

Quantisations: fp8 (default release), bf16 (...-BF16), gguf (mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512-GGUF). Engines: vLLM (recommended), Transformers.

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Every test result

Every result

All the numbers,with where they came from.

Every result we've found for this model, with who measured it and a link to where we read it.

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All results for this model
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AA-LCR26.3%DefaultMinistral 3 14BIndependent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug ministral-3-14b
AA-Omniscience Index-66.4DefaultMinistral 3 14BIndependent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug ministral-3-14b; AA-Omniscience Index (-100..100)
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index6DefaultMinistral 3 14BIndependent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug ministral-3-14b
Artificial Analysis output speed73 tok/sDefaultMinistral 3 14BIndependent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug ministral-3-14b; median output tokens/sec across AA-tracked API providers (not a self-hosted measurement)
EuroEval Swedish (generative)2.1Defaultmistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 (val)Independent testIndependentEuroEval (Alexandra Institute) ↗29 Sep 2026—rank tier 10; ±0.19; lower is better; Base-2512 scores 1.99 ±0.14; SweDN 38.13, Skolprov 55.50, Swedish facts 21.00, ScaLA-sv 45.47
GPQA Diamond57.2%DefaultMinistral 3 14BIndependent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug ministral-3-14b
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%DefaultMinistral 3 14BIndependent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug ministral-3-14b
SciCode23.8%DefaultMinistral 3 14BIndependent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug ministral-3-14b
Terminal-Bench 2.19.7%DefaultMinistral 3 14BIndependent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug ministral-3-14b