Ministral
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6recommend
0warn against
Dec 2, 2025first mention
May 22, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I run Ministral-3b on my hardware as my go-to”
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“fast enough that I never wait for it”
runs local models on 8GB GPU laptopon “How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?”
“I tested locally using Ministral 3B and it was promising.”
“I was pleasantly surprised by how fast and accurate these small models have become.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
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- Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory 1 mention
Also written as Ministral 14B, Ministral 3 8B, Ministral 3, Ministral. Data: ministral.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“I run Ministral-3b on my hardware as my go-to”
“Mostly Ministral 14B”
“it performed the best in my benchmarks”
“fast enough that I never wait for it”
“I tested locally using Ministral 3B and it was promising.”
“I was pleasantly surprised by how fast and accurate these small models have become.”
“mistral ministral 14b as LLM”
“https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ministral-3-8b-25-12”
“A recent local model I tried is Ministral 3 from a month ago.”
“I swap between ministral-3 and Qwen3”
“there's a Mistral 3B model that runs locally in a browser”
“There's a very cool demo of that here”