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Mistral Small

Mistral Small is a lightweight proprietary instruction-tuned language model from Mistral AI, designed to offer strong reasoning and coding performance at low latency and cost. It targets everyday chat, coding assistance, and task automation workloads where efficiency is critical.

by Mistral AIReleased 2024-04-10Proprietary

Context Window

32K

API Access

Available

Key Capabilities

+General-purpose chat and instruction following
+Fast, low-latency inference for interactive applications
+Solid coding assistance across common programming languages
+Summarization and rewriting of short to medium-length texts
+Basic reasoning and problem solving on everyday tasks

Limitations

-Smaller and less capable than flagship frontier models on complex reasoning and long-context tasks
-Knowledge and training data details are not fully disclosed
-May hallucinate facts or code and still requires human verification
-Not open source; usage is constrained to supported APIs and platforms

Benchmark Performance

reasoning

Massive Multitask Language Understanding

72.2%

coding

HumanEval

62.0%

math

Grade School Math 8K

70.6%

conversation

Chatbot Arena Elo

1102.0Elo

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Weaknesses

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Strengths

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Weaknesses

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Strengths

+ Open weights and flexible deployment
+ Good performance for its size

Weaknesses

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Other Mistral Models

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Sources

docs.mistral.ai mistral.ai platform.mistral.ai