Ministral 8B
Mistral's 8B edge model — but research-only licensed.
About
Ministral-8B-Instruct-2410 is Mistral's 8B edge model (released October 2024): 128K context, function calling, strong 8B-class quality for on-device and edge use. 122k HF downloads, not gated. Critical: it's under the Mistral AI Research License (MRL) — research-only, non-commercial. You may not use it commercially without a separate Mistral license. That single fact dominates the evaluation: for commercial 8B models, use Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen2.5 7B, or Gemma 2 9B instead. Included so the catalog documents the restriction.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported (Mistral, Oct 2024): strong 8B-class on MMLU, HumanEval — provider-reported.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: HF downloads 121,682 (peer-normalized); no release date — neutral maintenance score. Manual review: Mistral's 8B edge model (128K, function calling, 122k dl); research-only license dominates; superseded by Mistral Small 3. License: Mistral AI Research License (MRL) — RESEARCH-ONLY, non-commercial; no commercial use without a Mistral license.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.6/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 5.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 5.8/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · HF downloads 121,682 (peer-normalized)
- · no release date — neutral maintenance score
- · manual review: Mistral's 8B edge model (128K, function calling, 122k dl); research-only license dominates; superseded by Mistral Small 3