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Mistral 7B

Mistral · Ministral line · lightweight · open weights

Released September 27, 2023Replaced by Mistral NeMo

Mistral 7B was released by Mistral on September 27, 2023, as an open-weights lightweight model in the Ministral line.

  • Release 1 of 4 in the Ministral line.
  • The first release in this line.
  • Replaced by Mistral NeMo on July 18, 2024, 295 days later.
  • These days the line ships a new model about every 295 days.

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Where the Ministral line stands

Ministral 3 is the current model in this line. The card shows how long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.

Ministral

Mistral · lightweight line · open weights

Latest: Ministral 3 · Dec 2, 2025

Longer than usual326 days since the last release · usual gap 295 days

Ministral 3 comes in 3B, 8B and 14B sizes, each with base, instruct and reasoning versions that understand images, all under Apache 2.0, while Ministral 8B's weights were released for research use under the Mistral Research License.

What changed in Ministral 3 →
Days since last release
326
days
Usual gap
295
days
Recent gaps
Ministral 3 · Dec 2025
412
Ministral 8B · Oct 2024
90
Mistral NeMo · Jul 2024
295

Every Ministral release

Newest first. See the full line with every card →

  1. Dec 2, 2025Ministral 3
  2. Oct 16, 2024Ministral 8B
  3. Jul 18, 2024Mistral NeMo
  4. Sep 27, 2023Mistral 7B · this page