Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, long context, and vision
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- Mistral Small
- Released
- 2025-12-15
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 24B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 6 routes · Together AI
About
Mistral's Small 3.1 24B model with multimodal vision understanding capabilities. Optimized for cost-efficient deployment with 128K token context window. Available on Cloudflare Workers AI.
Top use-case fit
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 6Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Together AI | $0.100 | $0.300 | Serverless |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.351 | $0.555 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.350 | $0.560 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $0.900 | $0.900 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(11)
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 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
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.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Martian
RouterAI-powered LLM router that analyzes each prompt in real-time to select the optimal model, targeting 20–97% cost reduction while maintaining quality; San Francisco startup reportedly nearing $1.3B valuation.
Neutrino AI
RouterCommercial LLM router that dynamically routes each query to the best-suited model with load balancing and fallback handling, charging 3% of underlying AI spend.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
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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Comparison and alternatives
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