Ministral 3 14B is Mistral AI's largest Ministral 3 model, offering base, instruct, and reasoning variants with vision support under Apache 2.0.
Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits
Ministral 3 14B is the largest model in Mistral AI's Ministral 3 family, trained alongside the larger Mistral Large 3 as part of the same model generation. It is released as base, instruct, and reasoning variants, each with built-in image understanding, all under the Apache 2.0 license.
| Trait | Description |
|---|---|
| Three-variant release | Every Ministral 3 size, including the 14B, ships as base, instruct, and reasoning models, each with native vision support, openly licensed rather than closed |
| Token-efficient instruct variant | The instruct version is documented to match or exceed comparable models while often producing an order of magnitude fewer output tokens |
| Reasoning variant | A dedicated reasoning-trained version that thinks longer to raise accuracy on math, coding, and STEM-style tasks |
| Edge-first positioning | Designed primarily for local and on-device deployment rather than cloud-scale serving, while matching the performance of Mistral's larger Small 3.2 24B model |
| Generation sibling | Released together with Mistral Large 3, Mistral's mixture-of-experts flagship, as one coordinated model family |
Vision input and support for dozens of languages are built directly into the base architecture of every Ministral 3 14B variant, rather than added as a separate module or follow-up release. This lets the same checkpoint handle text, images, and cross-lingual tasks without switching models, which is the intended fit for enterprise and developer workflows that need one model for multiple input types at the edge.
Independent evaluations · Artificial Analysis
Evaluate specifications, pricing, and independent benchmark indices
| Model Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General Info | |||
| Provider | Mistral | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Release Date | December 2, 2025 | July 24, 2026 | June 9, 2026 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | - | May 2026 | - |
| Context & Limits | |||
| Context Window | 262K | 1M Best Context Window | 1M Best Context Window |
| Pricing (per 1M tokens) | |||
| Input Pricing | $0.20 Best Input Pricing | $5 | $10 |
| Output Pricing | $0.20 Best Output Pricing | $25 | $50 |
| Modalities | |||
| Inputs | textimage | textimage | textimagefile |
| Outputs | text | text | text |
| Benchmarks (0-100) | |||
| Intelligence Index | 11.2 | 63.1 Best Intelligence Index | 62.1 |
| Coding Index | 14.4 | 78.0 Best Coding Index | 76.5 |
| Agentic Index | 2.2 | 59.2 Best Agentic Index | 56.6 |
Graduate-level reasoning and expert Q&A evaluation.
Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.
Logical reasoning over long context windows.
Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.
