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Hardware guide · Mistral

What hardware do you need to run Ministral 3 3B?

Ministral 3 3B needs about 3.2 GB to run at Q4_K_M, so the lightest hardware that runs it is iPhone 15 Pro. 43 of 43 devices tested can run it.

Needs (Q4_K_M)
~3.2 GB
Devices that run it
43
Too small
0
Lightest that runs it
~4.5 GB
Recommended Q4_K_M
iPhone 15 Pro Yes

Runs at Q4_K_M using ~3.2 GB of ~4.5 GB usable.

What kind of hardware runs Ministral 3 3B

Of the 43 devices that run it, here is the split by hardware class.

12 discrete GPUs 14 Macs 3 laptops 14 phones

Hardware that runs Ministral 3 3B

Ranked by usable memory, lightest first. Prices are approximate street prices for the device itself (a GPU is the card alone; a Mac is the whole machine). Tok/s is a bandwidth estimate; see methodology.

Compatible devices 43 total

See the full Ministral 3 3B memory breakdown, or compare it against other models.

Sources

Memory at Q4_K_M (3.2 GB = 2 GB weights + KV cache + overhead), validated 2026-09-07. See methodology.