Mistral Small 3

Mistral · Mistral Small line · lightweight · open weights

Released January 30, 2025Replaced by Mistral Small 3.1

Mistral Small 3 was released by Mistral on January 30, 2025, as an open-weights lightweight model in the Mistral Small line.

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Mistral Small 4 is the current model in this line. The card shows how long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.

Mistral Small

Mistral · lightweight line · open weights

Latest: Mistral Small 4 · Mar 16, 2026

Longer than usual222 days since the last release · usual gap 135 days

Mistral Small 4 merges Mistral's Magistral reasoning, Pixtral image and Devstral coding models into one Apache 2.0 model with 119B total and 6B active parameters, switchable reasoning effort and a 256k-token context window, double Mistral Small 3.2's 128k.

What changed in Mistral Small 4 →
Days since last release
222
days
Usual gap
135
days
Recent gaps
Mistral Small 4 · Mar 2026
269
Mistral Small 3.2 · Jun 2025
95
Mistral Small 3.1 · Mar 2025
46
Mistral Small 3 · Jan 2025
135

Every Mistral Small release

Newest first. See the full line with every card →

  1. Mar 16, 2026Mistral Small 4
  2. Jun 20, 2025Mistral Small 3.2
  3. Mar 17, 2025Mistral Small 3.1
  4. Jan 30, 2025Mistral Small 3 · this page
  5. Sep 17, 2024Mistral Small 2.0
  6. Apr 10, 2024Mixtral 8x22B
  7. Feb 26, 2024Mistral Small 1.0
  8. Dec 8, 2023Mixtral 8x7B