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Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Mistral Medium 3.1 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Supports vision

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Faster response time
Price Advantage
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501
Benchmark Advantage
Mistral Medium 3.1
Context Window
Mistral Medium 3.1
Speed
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureMistral Medium 3.1Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyMistral Medium 3.1Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorMistral AIMistral AI
ReleasedAug 2025Jan 2025

Mistral Medium 3.1 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 has cheaper input pricing at $0.05/M tokens. Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 has cheaper output pricing at $0.08/M tokens.
Mistral Medium 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 18.3, compared to Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501's score of N/A.
Mistral Medium 3.1 has a 131,072 token context window, while Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 has a 32,768 token context window.
Mistral Medium 3.1 supports vision. Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 does not support vision.