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Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Current board #132Arena #196Official publisher releaseOpen weights

Mistral AI·mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct

Mistral Small 3.2 24B is ModelCap current-board rank #132 with Index 39.6 (Measured), from the ModelCap Index as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Mistral Small 3.2 24B listed OpenRouter input price is $0.094 per 1M tokens and listed output price is $0.25 per 1M tokens, from OpenRouter listed prices as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Mistral Small 3.2 24B has a published context limit of 256K tokens in the ModelCap catalogue as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Mistral Small 3.2 24B has 3 published OpenRouter serving endpoints, from OpenRouter as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Mistral Small 3.2 24B weight access is open weights, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Snapshot facts · download the public dataset · methodology

ModelCap Index · Current board
39.6#132
Measured · 62% support · score interval 34.5–44.7
Evidence as of 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Market Gravity
31.5Decreased by 0.1
Secondary market signal
Input
$0.094
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.25
per 1M tokens
Context
256K
tokens
Providers
3
endpoints
Gateway spend
latest · Vercel share

Providers

Uptime measured over the last 30 minutes
ProviderInputOutputContextQuantUptime
DeepInfrafp8Cheapest$0.075$0.20128Kfp899.94%
Venicefp8$0.094$0.25256Kfp899.84%
Parasailbf16$0.09$0.30131Kbf16100.0%

Other versions (1)

ModelCap Index · Current board

Methodology
39.6
Measured · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
Current board
#132
Public rank basis
Measured (measured)
Index support
61.5% · strong
Index interval
34.5–44.7
Rank posterior
Not available
Top 5 / Top 10 probability
Not available / Not available
Posterior as of
Snapshot timestamp unavailable
Evidence as of
13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Identity binding
Exact catalogue product · mistralai/mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506@95a6d26c4bfb886c58daf9d3f7332c857cb27b43 (not the evaluation revision)
Index observations used
2
Qualified Index evidence point
39.6
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only

BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.

Observed capability
39.6
Evidence status
confirmed · 77% mass
General preference
39.5
Coding
40.4
Agents & tools
Reasoning
Evidence breadth
92%
Evidence coverage
62%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
16.1
Liquidity (providers × uptime)
57.4
Open reach (HF downloads)
49.3
Surface (context / tools / modalities)
65.1
Freshness
17.5
  • · OpenRouter popularity #127
  • · 3 live providers
  • · HF 30d downloads 188426
  • · Catalogue: context 256000, tools, modalities Image/Text
  • · First seen 2025-06-20

These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.

BES evidence selected · measured input only

The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.

Deployment readiness

Metadata index
90.4
strong · 98% metadata coverage
Not capability
Artifact reproducibility
100.0
Access & legal clarity
100.0
Deployability
100.0
Evaluation provenance
52.2

Missing: evaluationProvenance.evaluation-dataset-revisions.

A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.

Market activity

Venue coverage
Market Gravity
31.5
OpenRouter weekly popularity
#127 of 322

Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.

Arena preference

Status
Ranked
Source
LMArena
Official rank
#196 of 402
Rating
1356.7
95% confidence interval
1351–1362
Votes
17K
Source published at
13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Category
overall
Identity match confidence
98%

Market Gravity breakdown

Usage55%
16.1

OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.

Liquidity25%
57.4

Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.

Open reach15%
49.3

Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.

Freshness5%
17.5

Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.

Specification

Context window
256K tokens
Max output
16K tokens
Inputs
Image, Text
Outputs
Text
Tokenizer
Mistral
Cached input tokens
Not offered
First seen on OpenRouter
20 Jun 2025
Knowledge cutoff
2023-10-31

Capabilities

  • Not supported: Reasoning
  • Supported: Tool use
  • Supported: Structured output
  • Supported: Response format
  • Not supported: Moderated

Weights & access

Open weights. Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI.

Access
Open weights
Licence
apache-2.0
Pinned revision
95a6d26c4bfb
Parameters
24.0B
Architecture
Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
Model type
mistral3
Hugging Face downloads (30d)
188K
Downloads (all time)
5.4M
Likes
616
Repository updated
22 Dec 2025, 10:16 UTC

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Arena coding leaderboardArena (LMArena)14121402–1422#187 of 397Default13 Sept 2026
BFCL V4 function-calling leaderboardUC Berkeley (Gorilla)37.2#38 of 83Function calling12 Apr 2026

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Mistral Small 3.2 24B: common questions

How does Mistral Small 3.2 24B rank among AI models?

Mistral Small 3.2 24B holds ModelCap Index position #132 of 248 ranked language models as of 22 September 2026, with an Index score of 39.6 (interval 34.5–44.7); evidence: measured. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.

How much does Mistral Small 3.2 24B cost per 1M tokens?

Mistral Small 3.2 24B is listed at $0.094 per 1M input tokens and $0.25 per 1M output tokens as of 22 September 2026; the lowest output price among 3 providers is $0.20 on DeepInfra. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $0.313 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.

What is the context window of Mistral Small 3.2 24B?

Mistral Small 3.2 24B has a published context window of 256K tokens (256,000) and a maximum output of 16K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; the providers table lists each endpoint's own limit.

Is Mistral Small 3.2 24B open-weight?

Open weights (apache-2.0). Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI. The repository is mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 on Hugging Face.

Which API providers serve Mistral Small 3.2 24B?

3 providers serve Mistral Small 3.2 24B through OpenRouter as of 22 September 2026: DeepInfra, Parasail and Venice. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.

Which benchmarks has Mistral Small 3.2 24B been evaluated on?

Mistral Small 3.2 24B has published results on 2 public boards tracked by ModelCap as of 22 September 2026: Arena coding 1412 (#187 of 397) and BFCL V4 37.2 (#38 of 83). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark; the ModelCap Index combines them with published uncertainty.

How does Mistral Small 3.2 24B compare with Mercury 2.5?

Mistral Small 3.2 24B ranks #132 (Index 39.6) and Mercury 2.5 ranks #133 (Index 38.6) on the ModelCap Index as of 22 September 2026. The head-to-head page lines up their benchmarks, listed prices, context windows and provider counts side by side.

When was Mistral Small 3.2 24B released?

Mistral Small 3.2 24B first appeared in the catalogue on 20 Jun 2025, with a published knowledge cutoff of 2023-10-31. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.