Magistral Small 2506 vs Mistral Nemotron
Magistral Small 2506 (2025) and Mistral Nemotron (2025) are frontier reasoning models from MistralAI. Magistral Small 2506 ships a 128k-token context window, while Mistral Nemotron ships a not-yet-sourced context window. This comparison covers specs, pricing, API access, capabilities, benchmarks, input and output token costs, and production fit for coding and agent workloads. It focuses on practical selection signals rather than broad model-family marketing.
Mistral Nemotron is safer overall; choose Magistral Small 2506 when reasoning depth matters.
Decision scorecard
Local evidence first| Signal | Magistral Small 2506 | Mistral Nemotron |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | reasoning-heavy apps | general production evaluation |
| Decision fit | Long context | General |
| Context window | 128k | — |
| Cheapest output | - | - |
| Provider routes | 1 tracked | 1 tracked |
| Shared benchmarks | 0 shared | 0 shared |
Decision tradeoffs
- Magistral Small 2506 has the larger context window for long prompts, retrieval packs, or transcript analysis.
- Magistral Small 2506 uniquely exposes Reasoning in local model data.
- Local decision data tags Magistral Small 2506 for Long context.
- Use Mistral Nemotron when your own prompt tests beat the comparison signals; the local data does not show a decisive standalone advantage yet.
Monthly cost at traffic
Estimate token spend from the cheapest tracked input and output route or tier on this page.
Magistral Small 2506
Unavailable
No complete token price in local provider data
Mistral Nemotron
Unavailable
No complete token price in local provider data
Cost delta unavailable until both models have sourced input and output token prices.
Switch friction
- Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.
- Check replacement coverage for Reasoning before moving production traffic.
- Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.
- Magistral Small 2506 adds Reasoning in local capability data.
Specs
| Specification | ||
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2025-12-01 |
| Context window | 128k | — |
| Parameters | 24B | 70B |
| Architecture | Decoder Only | Decoder Only |
| License | Apache 2.0OSI-approved | Proprietary |
| Openness | Open source | Proprietary |
| Weights | Unknown | Not released |
| Code | Unknown | Unknown |
| Commercial use | Commercial use: permitted | - |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-06 | - |
Pricing and availability
| Pricing attribute | Magistral Small 2506 | Mistral Nemotron |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | - | - |
| Output price | - | - |
| Providers |
Pricing not yet sourced for either model.
Capabilities
| Capability | Magistral Small 2506 | Mistral Nemotron |
|---|---|---|
| Vision | No | No |
| Multimodal | No | No |
| Reasoning | Yes | No |
| JSON / Tool use | No | No |
| Structured outputs | No | No |
| Code execution | No | No |
| IDE integration | No | No |
| Computer use | No | No |
| Parallel agents | No | No |
Benchmarks
No shared benchmark scores are currently available for this pair.
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Last reviewed: 2026-05-22. Data sourced from public model cards and provider documentation.