Model profile
mistralai

Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 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
131K Tokens

Extended

Input Price
$0.06

Budget tier

Decision snapshot
56

Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 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
131K Tokens
76

How much prompt and task state can stay in view.

Competitive
Price
$0.06
86

$0.18 output / 1M

Efficient

Editorial Profile

Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 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-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 is an updated 24B parameter model from Mistral optimized for instruction following, repetition reduction, and improved function calling. Compared to the 3.1 release, version 3.2 significantly improves accuracy on WildBench and Arena Hard, reduces infinite generations, and delivers gains in tool use and structured output tasks. It supports image and text inputs with structured outputs, function/tool calling, and strong performance across coding (HumanEval+, MBPP), STEM (MMLU, MATH, GPQA), and vision benchmarks (ChartQA, DocVQA).

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
131K Tokens
Vision
Enabled
Modalities
text, image->text, image
Tokenizer
Mistral
Max Completion
131072
Moderation
No
Supported Parameters
frequency_penaltylogit_biasmax_tokensmin_ppresence_penaltyrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_p
Input Modalities
imagetext
Output Modalities
text
Price architecture
Input
per 1M input tokens
$0.06
Output
per 1M output tokens
$0.18
Blended
AA 3:1 mix
N/A

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

OR Cache Read
$0.00

Metadata

Raw source tables at the end

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