Mistral AI · First MLX build 3 Dec 2025
Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 8.5B parameter text generation model from Mistral AI, with one MLX build.
- Parameters
- 8.5B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- Unstated Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
- Memory needed
- 21 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 17.0 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 225 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 21 GB at Unstated
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Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.
Run it
Terminal · mlx-lm$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 | Unstated | 17.0 GB | 21 GB | 225 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.