Ministral 8B Instruct

MistralMCP Tool Call

mistral/ministral-8b-instruct-2410Open Weights

Efficient open Mistral edge model for on-device chat and function calling

Benchmark Pricing$0.15 / 1M in$0.15 / 1M out$0.15 cache read

Context: 131,072 tokens•Max Output: 8,192 tokens•Released: 2024-10-16

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window131,072131.1K tokens

Max Output8,1928.2K tokens

LicenseMistral Research LicenseSelf-hostable

Input Modalities

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Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)

Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Ministral 8B Instruct natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 131,072 tokens, this model can handle moderately large MCP tool definitions and multi-turn conversation logs comfortably.

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Ministral 8B Instruct via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.MISTRAL_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "mistral/ministral-8b-instruct-2410",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);