Mistral AIMistral Small

Mistral Small 1.0

Mistral Small 1.0 is the proprietary February 2024 release, identified as mistral-small-2402. It was positioned between the earlier open models and Mistral Large for cost-sensitive text workloads.

Retired

The Small name changed meaning

The December 2023 mistral-small endpoint had served Mixtral 8x7B. February’s announcement introduced a new optimized Small model with retrieval and function-calling support. The endpoint name therefore does not identify a single unchanged checkpoint across those launches.Mistral Large 1.0 release announcementMistral 7B v0.2 release announcement

A historical 32K model

The lifecycle record assigns 32K context to Small 1.0 and marks its hosted version retired. It does not list public weights. Later Small 2 research weights and Small 3 Apache weights have their own releases and terms.Mistral Small 1.0 model and lifecycle record

Specifications & access

Mistral Small 1.0 specifications
DetailValue and conditions
StatusRetired
Launch date
AccessAPI
Model identifiersmistral-small-2402
Context window32,000 tokens

The model catalog advertises 32k context for this version. This is not a measured recall limit.

Mistral Small 1.0 model and lifecycle record
Weight accessNo public weight download is listed in the official model record.Mistral Small 1.0 model and lifecycle record
Access and lifecycleHosted API retired on 16 June 2025.Mistral Small 1.0 model and lifecycle record