Mistral Small (Feb ’24)
Analysis Summary
Mistral Small (Feb 2024) is an early compact model from Mistral, positioned as a cost-efficient option for straightforward language tasks. Its intelligence index places it well below current mid-tier models, and coding capability data is limited to a modest livecodebench score, making it unsuitable for technical or agentic workloads.
For businesses, it fits narrow use cases: simple content drafting, basic summarisation, or lightweight classification where cost is the primary constraint. Instruction-following and long-context reliability are not strengths at this tier, so it should not be used for client-facing or high-stakes outputs.
At $1/1M input tokens it is affordable, but newer Mistral releases and competing small models have since surpassed it on most benchmarks. Teams with a genuine need for a budget text model should evaluate more recent alternatives before committing to this version.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
Mistral Small (Feb 2024) is a lightweight, affordable model from Mistral with limited reasoning depth, suited to basic content drafting and low-complexity tasks at $1/1M input tokens.
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Performance Profile
How Mistral Small (Feb ’24) compares
Mistral Small (Feb ’24) ranks #331 of 378 AI models we track for overall intelligence. At $1.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 25% of comparable models.
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| Provider | Mistral |
| Release Date | February 26, 2024 |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.00 | $0.001000 |
| Output | $3.00 | $0.003000 |
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Frequently asked questions about Mistral Small (Feb ’24)
How much does Mistral Small (Feb ’24) cost?
Mistral Small (Feb ’24) costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens.
Who created Mistral Small (Feb ’24)?
Mistral Small (Feb ’24) is developed by Mistral and was released on February 26, 2024.
