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Ministral 3 14B
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RANKED #243 OF 317 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #367 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 52 VOICES ·
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The largest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 14B offers frontier capabilities and performance comparable to its larger Mistral Small 3.2 24B counterpart. A powerful and efficient language...
HAPPY9.7
5 mentions
SAD5.3
4 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 43 voices in this window
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Ministral 3 14B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
14B parameters, a Q4_K_M GGUF is about 9 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$220 USEDQ4_K_M, ~28 tok/s, 8k context fully offloaded to VRAM
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$750 NEWQ8_0 or Q4_K_M with 32k context, ~55 tok/s
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 USEDFP16 or Q8 with long context, ~85 tok/s
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN MINISTRAL 3 14B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Ministral 3 14B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~18 S★★★★★ | ~9 S★★★★★ | ~6 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~54 S★★★★★ | ~27 S★★★★★ | ~18 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~4.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~15 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.9 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~8.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.5 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.9 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Ministral 3 14B yet to call it. We found 52 posts but people did not say much either way.
41 POSTS · 11 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · LEMMY
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT MORE
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
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