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Ministral 14B

mistralmistral/ministral-14b

API guide

Chat completion

cURL
curl https://api.therouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $THEROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistral/ministral-14b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain cascade distillation in two paragraphs."}]
  }'

Streaming

cURL
curl https://api.therouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $THEROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistral/ministral-14b",
    "stream": true,
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "List the top 5 open-source LLMs of 2025."}]
  }'

Tool / function calling

cURL
curl https://api.therouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $THEROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistral/ministral-14b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the weather in Paris?"}],
    "tools": [{
      "type": "function",
      "function": {
        "name": "get_weather",
        "description": "Get current weather for a city",
        "parameters": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": { "city": { "type": "string" } },
          "required": ["city"]
        }
      }
    }]
  }'

Vision (image input)

cURL
curl https://api.therouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $THEROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistral/ministral-14b",
    "messages": [{
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
        {"type": "text", "text": "Describe what you see in this image."},
        {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://therouter.ai/assets/vision-sample.png"}}
      ]
    }]
  }'

JSON / structured output

cURL
curl https://api.therouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $THEROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistral/ministral-14b",
    "response_format": {"type": "json_object"},
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Return a JSON object with keys: name, capital, population for France."}]
  }'
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