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Magistral Small

Mistral·

LLMsopen-weightEdge / Consumer

Overview

Mistral's first reasoning model, released as open weights at 24B under Apache 2.0. The larger Magistral Medium sibling announced the same day is API-only and has no published weights — it is tracked as a separate cloud entry.

Capabilities and innovations

Reasoning traces in the response128K context windowMultilingualApache 2.0 licenseFirst reasoning model from Mistral

Benchmarks

No benchmark values are recorded for this model.

  • GPQA Diamond: independent evaluation pending — The values previously carried here (GPQA 72.4, HLE 19.8, MMLU 88.4, SWE-bench 48.9) were unsourced and match the API-only Magistral Medium, not the open 24B. Re-source from the Magistral release before entering a value.
  • Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools): independent evaluation pending
  • MMLU: independent evaluation pending
  • SWE-bench Verified: independent evaluation pending
  • SWE-bench Pro: not reported by the vendor
  • MMLU-Pro: not reported by the vendor
  • Terminal-Bench 2.x: benchmark did not exist at release
  • MMMU-Pro: benchmark did not exist at release

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
24B total (Dense)
Estimated VRAM at Q4
~14 GB, Edge / Consumer class
Quantization formats
GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ
Recommended runtime
Ollama
License
Apache 2.0

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