Ministral 3 8B
European-built, strong on French and German
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Mistral's compact model, published by Mistral themselves rather than converted by a third party. Particularly good on European languages.
A sensible pick if you want an alternative to the American and Chinese labs, or if you work in French, German, Spanish or Italian.
Available versions
| Quantization | Size | VRAM | RAM | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 5.2 GB | 5.5 GBest. | 9.3 GB | 8k | Install |
Memory needed grows with the length of a conversation, so these figures are for the context shown. Anything marked est. is worked out from the file size rather than measured on real hardware — the app says so there too. The desktop app checks all of it against your actual machine before installing.