Mistral Small 2503
Mistral Small 2503 is worth evaluating for agents, vision, and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating agents, vision, and json / tool use
- Workloads that can use a 33k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- Mistral Small
- Released
- 2025-03-01
- Context
- 33k
- Max output
- 4,096
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 1 route · Microsoft Foundry
About
From partners/community. Context 32,768 tokens, Output 4,096. Tool calling: Yes. Languages: fr, de, es, it, en.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.100 | $0.300 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(5)
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.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
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.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Agents
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 1 route · Microsoft Foundry