Mistral Small
- Family
- Mistral Small
- Released
- 2024-02-26
- Context
- 32K
- Parameters
- 22B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedPermitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 2 routes · AWS Bedrock
About
Mistral Small is a language model from MistralAI. It offers a 32K-token context window.
Overview
Mistral Small (API identifier: mistral-small-2402) is Mistral AI's first-generation Small tier model, released in February 2024 as part of a commercial API family that offered three capability tiers: Mistral Tiny, Mistral Small, and Mistral Medium. It is positioned above the open-source Mixtral 8x7B in Mistral's capability hierarchy. The model supports a 32,768-token context window, multilingual instruction following across European languages, and tool calling for structured API interactions. Specific parameter counts for this commercial tier have not been publicly disclosed by Mistral AI.
Mistral Small targets cost-efficient production deployments requiring strong instruction following, code generation, and multilingual support without the premium of the Medium or Large tiers. It supports multiple European languages and delivers reliable performance on classification, summarization, code assistance, and structured extraction tasks at lower cost per token than the higher tiers.
The model is available through Mistral AI's API, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Fireworks AI, and DeepInfra. Later versions—Mistral Small 2 (September 2024, 22B parameters), Mistral Small 3, 3.1, and 4—have substantially superseded this release with improved benchmarks, updated context windows, and in later variants, vision capability. The original mistral-small-2402 remains available for legacy integrations.
Providers(2)
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock | $1.00 | $3.00 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Deprecated provider routes(3)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry | DeprecatedRetired July 31, 2025 | — |
| Mistral AI Studio | DeprecatedRetired June 16, 2025 | mistral-small-2402 |
| DeepInfra | Deprecated | — |
Available via routers & gateways(14)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing
RouterAWS Bedrock's native prompt router that predicts each model's performance per request and routes between two models of the same family (Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama or Amazon Nova).
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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