Model · Mistral AI · Text
Ministral 3 14B
The largest model in Mistral's Ministral 3 family. It is built for local deployment with strong text and vision performance on diverse hardware.
- Modality
- Text
- License
- Apache 2.0 (Open)
- Parameter size
- 14B
- Context window
- 256,000 tokens
- Released
- December 2, 2025
- Last verified
- October 28, 2026
- Runs locally
- Yes
- Also handles
- vision
What you need to run it
- Mac
- Yes. Any Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer) with at least 16 GB (24 GB recommended) of memory. Newer chips are faster, but memory is what decides whether it runs.
- Windows / Linux PC
- NVIDIA works best. A graphics card with at least 12 GB (16 GB recommended) of video memory.
- No graphics card
- Not practical. Too slow without a graphics card or Apple Silicon.
Runs on a 16 GB Mac through Ollama, LM Studio or MLX, including image input.
Numbers are for: 4-bit build of the 14B (about 9 GB). Our estimate from the model’s size — the maker publishes no figure.
Strengths
- Optimized for local deployment
- 256k context window
- Strong text-and-vision performance for its size class
Weaknesses
- Less absolute headroom than larger frontier Mistral models
- Newer local ecosystem than the older Mistral 7B line
Try it
| Where | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral La Plateforme | hosted-api | API key required |
| Mistral model card | weights | Open weights |
Official sources
- Model card docs
- Announcement announcement
Change log
- — Added hardware requirements (Mac support, memory, NVIDIA). Source: estimate from size; Ollama ministral-3 page (9.1 GB); mlx-community Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512-4bit.
- — Verified current against Mistral's models overview (v25.12, still listed as active) and changelog. Licence corrected from "Open weights" to Apache 2.0 (as the overview states), which moves it under the Open filter.
- — Verified current against Mistral's models overview and model card; release date matches exactly.
- — Added after verification of Mistral's current local-deployment lineup.
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