Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B (free)
Mistral Small 3.1 24B (free) is a genuinely capable free-tier model with vision, tool use, and a 128K context window — offering solid value for content and instruction-following tasks at zero cost. Benchmark scores are modest but respectable for a free offering, making it a good starting point for budget-conscious teams.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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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
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Mistral |
| Parameters | 24B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
