Azure AI Foundry
ministral-3b model retirement
Stops working
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 of ministral-3b
Move to ministral-ministral-4b-instruct, which is recommended by Microsoft.
Facts
- API
- Azure AI Foundry
*.services.ai.azure.com - Model
ministral-3b- 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.
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.