Mistral · Open weights
Mistral Saba
Mistral Saba is a 24B-parameter language model specifically designed for the Middle East and South Asia, delivering accurate and contextually relevant responses while maintaining efficient performance. Trained on curated regional datasets, it supports multiple Indian-origin languages—including Tamil and Malayalam—alongside Arabic. This makes it a versatile option for a range of regional and multilingual applications.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.20
- Output
- $0.60
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 32.8K
- Max output
- 26.2K
- Average output (7 days)
- 63 tokens
- Longer than 6% of 465 models
Side by side
Mistral Saba compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Mistral SabaMistralThis model | Mistral Code Agent LatestMistralRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral | Mistral |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Jun 2, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 32.77K | 262.14KBest |
| Max output | 26.21K | 32.77KBest |
| Average output | 63 tokens | 316 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.20Best | $0.40 |
| Output | $0.60Best | $2.00 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.5 | 8.6Best |
| Coding Index | — | 31.3 |
| Math Index | — | 36.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Mistral Saba
- Mistral Code Agent Latest
Intelligence Index
- Mistral Saba6.5
- Mistral Code Agent Latest8.6
Mistral Saba: Better than 5% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 31.3
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 36.7
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 3.1%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 0.0%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 482 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 544 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 2.4%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 32.3%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Mistral Saba: 4.3%Top
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 3.6%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Mistral Saba: 42.4%
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 59.4%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Mistral Saba: 61.1%
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 76.2%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 38.1%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 0.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 32.8%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 44.8%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 36.7%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Mistral Saba: 13.0%
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Mistral Saba: 67.7%
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 18.9%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 24.9%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Mistral Saba: —
- Mistral Code Agent Latest: 32.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistralai/mistral-saba",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistralai/mistral-saba",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Mistral
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