Model family timeline
Last updated Mar 16, 2026
Mistral Small model releases
A source-backed timeline for the Mistral Small model family, collecting release dates, labs, access details, context windows, and major lifecycle changes.
3 models
Mistral Small 4
AvailableMistral's March 2026 Small release: the first Mistral model to unify reasoning (Magistral), multimodal understanding (Pixtral), and agentic coding (Devstral) into one Apache 2.0 model. A 119B-total / ~6B-active Mixture-of-Experts (128 experts, 4 active per token) with native text+image input, a 256K context, and a configurable reasoning_effort toggle for fast or deep responses. API pricing is $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens.
Mistral Small 3.1
AvailableApache-licensed Small update adding vision and a 128K context window to the efficient 24B line.
Mistral Small 3
AvailableA latency-optimized 24B dense model under Apache-2.0 — a popular local-deployment workhorse.