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Ministral 3 8B
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RANKED #202 OF 337 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #321 OF 528 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 38 VOICES
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Ministral 3 8B is a balanced, efficient multimodal model offering strong text and vision capabilities, optimized for edge and local deployment.
HAPPY10.0
4 mentions
SAD5.0
3 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 38 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
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 8B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
8B parameters, a Q4_K_M GGUF file is about 4.9 GB, requiring roughly 7 to 8 GB RAM or VRAM
- BARE MINIMUM
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$220 USEDQ4_K_M, ~35 tok/s, 8k context fully offloaded to VRAM
- SWEET SPOT
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$590 NEWQ8_0 or Q5_K_M, ~65 tok/s, 16k context
- FULL POWER
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 NEWBF16 unquantized or Q8, ~110 tok/s, 32k to 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN MINISTRAL 3 8B?
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 8B 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 Super 12GB | FULL POWERNvidia GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~14 S★★★★★ | ~8 S★★★★★ | ~5 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~43 S★★★★★ | ~23 S★★★★★ | ~14 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~73 S★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~12 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~7.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.3 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 8B yet to call it. We found 38 posts but people did not say much either way.
32 POSTS · 6 COMMENTS · GITHUB · X · REDDIT · LEMMY
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
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Qwen3.8 27B> SOURCES (12)
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- REDDIT · 2025-12-29 · 5 UPVOTESSo hi all, i am currently playing with all this self hosted LLM (SLM in my case with my hardware limitations) im just using a Proxmox…
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- REDDIT · 2026-05-05 · 4 UPVOTESMy Local Ollama Server Specs make sense?
My Local Ollama Server Specs make sense?
- REDDIT · 2026-02-24 · 3 UPVOTESComment in r/ollama
Comment in r/ollama
- GITHUB · 2026-09-18 · 1 UPVOTESTower: curated model list offers Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, which has no thinking mode and fails half the Tower check
Tower: curated model list offers Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, which has no thinking mode and fails half the Tower check
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