Model profile
mistralai

Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B

Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B is a budget multimodal generalist from mistralai with a heavy runtime profile, extended context posture, and the clearest fit around long-context research / multimodal.

Best for: Long-context research / MultimodalHeavy latencyExtended contextBudget pricing
Intelligence
N/A

Benchmark blend

Coding
N/A

Dev workflow signal

Context
128K Tokens

Extended

Input Price
$0.35

Budget tier

Decision snapshot
56

Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B currently reads as a budget multimodal option with extended context and a heavy runtime profile.

Overall profile
Selective fit
Best for
Long-context research / Multimodal
Latency tier
Heavy
Price tier
Budget
Source coverage
OpenRouterVision signal

Decision Strip

Decision rail before the raw tables

Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.

Intelligence
N/A
44

General reasoning and benchmark headroom.

Situational
Speed
N/A
46

Latency data is partial.

Situational
Context
128K Tokens
76

How much prompt and task state can stay in view.

Competitive
Price
$0.35
86

$0.56 output / 1M

Efficient

Editorial Profile

Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B in one narrative

Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.

Selective fitCoding score 40Math score 36Vision enabled

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct is an upgraded variant of Mistral Small 3 (2501), featuring 24 billion parameters with advanced multimodal capabilities. It provides state-of-the-art performance in text-based reasoning and vision tasks, including image analysis, programming, mathematical reasoning, and multilingual support across dozens of languages. Equipped with an extensive 128k token context window and optimized for efficient local inference, it supports use cases such as conversational agents, function calling, long-document comprehension, and privacy-sensitive deployments. The updated version is [Mistral Small 3.2](mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct)

Identity

mistralai multimodal profile

Positioning

Long-context research / Multimodal with extended context and heavy runtime.

Cost posture

Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.

Strengths
  • Large context headroom supports repo-wide prompts and long research sessions.

  • Vision-capable routing opens up multimodal review and extraction workflows.

Tradeoffs
  • Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.

  • Latency profile is better for deliberate runs than rapid back-and-forth chat.

Best fit
  • Image-grounded review, multimodal extraction, and UI audit workflows.

  • Long-context summarization, repo analysis, and policy or document review.

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Benchmarks

Grouped by job-to-be-done

Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.

No benchmark data is available for this model yet.

Specs & Pricing

Technical snapshot and cost posture

Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.

Technical snapshot
Context Window
128K Tokens
Vision
Enabled
Modalities
text, image->text, image
Tokenizer
Mistral
Moderation
No
Supported Parameters
frequency_penaltymax_tokenspresence_penaltyrepetition_penaltyseedtemperaturetop_ktop_p
Input Modalities
textimage
Output Modalities
text
Price architecture
Input
per 1M input tokens
$0.35
Output
per 1M output tokens
$0.56
Blended
AA 3:1 mix
N/A

This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.

Metadata

Raw source tables at the end

Verification details remain available, but the page no longer forces them ahead of the editorial read.