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Ministral 3 14B (v25.12, Base/Instruct/Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B, developed by MistralAI, is a multimodal foundation model with advanced reasoning capabilities. It is equipped with a long context window of 256K and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Parameters

140.0B

Context Window

256K

License

Apache 2.0

Release Date

2025-12-02

API Pricing

API pricing for this model is not yet available

Strengths

  • Possesses advanced reasoning capabilities
  • 256K long context processing
  • Open license

Weaknesses

  • Requires computational resources of 140B scale
  • Load for multimodal processing
  • Possibility of increased operational costs

Use Cases

  • Complex logical reasoning tasks
  • Analysis and summarization of long documents
  • Multimodal data processing

Deep Analysis

Architecture

Dense Transformer (14B)

Largest in Ministral 3 family

Context Window

262K tokens

API Pricing (Input/Output)

$0.20 / $0.20 per 1M tokens

Blended $0.40/1M

Release Date

December 2, 2025

License

Open weights (v25.12)

Output Speed

78-181 t/s

Varies by provider

Strengths

  • Frontier capabilities at small model size
  • Very affordable pricing ($0.20/1M)
  • 262K context window
  • Open weights
  • Good balance of speed and performance

Weaknesses

  • Smaller than Mistral Large models
  • Limited multimodal support
  • Reasoning depth may not match larger models

Competitor Comparison

ModelArenaSWEGPQAPrice
Ministral 8B---$0.10/$0.10
Mistral Small 4---Higher
Llama 3.3 70B---Higher

Ministral 3 14B is the largest model in Mistral's Ministral 3 family, offering frontier capabilities in a compact 14B parameter package. Released December 2025 with 262K context and very competitive pricing.

Analysis generated: 2026-05-24