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ministral-3b model retirement
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On December 9, 2026, Azure AI Foundry will retire model ministral-3b. Calls targeting this model will fail after that day. The change affects any workloads actively relying on version 1 of the model.
What to use instead of ministral-3b
Move to ministral-ministral-4b-instruct, which Microsoft recommends as the replacement.
In Azure AI Foundry's words
Model: Ministral-3B; Version: 1; Lifecycle: GA; Retirement date: 2026-12-09; Replacement: ministral-ministral-4b-instruct
Facts
- API
- Azure AI Foundry
*.services.ai.azure.com - Model
ministral-3b- Released
- October 16, 2024 (models.dev)
- Kind
- Model retirement
- Takes effect
- December 9, 2026
- Calls after that day
- Fail
- Source
- Deprecations page
- Last updated
- Verified
- , against Azure AI Foundry's own pages
Questions
When does ministral-3b shut down?
Calls to the model ministral-3b on Azure AI Foundry stop working on December 9, 2026.
What happens to calls after December 9, 2026?
They fail from that day.
When was ministral-3b released?
ministral-3b was released on October 16, 2024, according to models.dev.
How do I find the calls this hits in my code?
Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.
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Is your code calling this?
Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix before December 9, 2026.