# ministral-3b

Calls to the model ministral-3b on Azure AI Foundry stop working on December 9, 2026.

On December 9, 2026, Azure AI Foundry will retire model ministral-3b. Calls targeting model ministral-3b will fail after this date.

## What to use instead

Move to ministral-ministral-4b-instruct, which is recommended by Microsoft.

- API: Azure AI Foundry (*.services.ai.azure.com)
- Model: ministral-3b
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: December 9, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model ministral-3b`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule)
- Verified: October 29, 2026, against Azure AI Foundry's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/azure-ai-foundry/ministral-3b/

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent