Mistral: Mistral Small Creative
Analysis Summary
Mistral Small Creative is a compact Mistral model with a 32K context window, text-only input, and support for tool use and function calling. The supplied results show limited general intelligence and coding performance, while the product positioning suggests a focus on accessible creative generation rather than complex analysis.
It can serve short social posts, headline variants, simple briefs, classification, and lightweight structured automation where prompts and source material remain compact. Function calling broadens its usefulness for bounded workflows, but the context window is modest and the measured results do not support demanding code generation, long-document work, or autonomous agents.
Pricing is attractive at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens. It is worth piloting for high-volume routine content, provided editorial review remains in place.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
Mistral Small Creative offers very low token pricing, function calling, and a creative-oriented product position. Its limited intelligence and coding results make it suitable for lightweight drafting and automation, not demanding reasoning or production engineering.
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DFO Verdict
Mistral Small Creative offers very low token pricing, function calling, and a creative-oriented product position. Its limited intelligence and coding results make it suitable for lightweight drafting and automation, not demanding reasoning or production engineering.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
4.3 Intelligence Index
How Mistral: Mistral Small Creative compares
Mistral: Mistral Small Creative ranks #360 of 420 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 33K-token context window is larger than 27% of the models we list. At $0.10 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 70% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.10 | $0.000100 |
| Output | $0.30 | $0.000300 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Talk to our teamAbout Mistral: Mistral Small Creative
Mistral Small Creative is an experimental small model designed for creative writing, narrative generation, roleplay and character-driven dialogue, general-purpose instruction following, and conversational agents.
Frequently asked questions about Mistral: Mistral Small Creative
How much does Mistral: Mistral Small Creative cost?
Mistral: Mistral Small Creative costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Mistral: Mistral Small Creative?
Mistral: Mistral Small Creative has a context window of 32,768 tokens (33K).
What can Mistral: Mistral Small Creative do?
Mistral: Mistral Small Creative supports tool use and function calling.
Who created Mistral: Mistral Small Creative?
Mistral: Mistral Small Creative is developed by Mistral and was released on December 16, 2025.
