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 468 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 Medium 3.5MistralRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral | Mistral |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Apr 29, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 32.77K | 256KBest |
| Max output | 26.21K | 32.77KBest |
| Average output | 63 tokens | — |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.20Best | $1.50 |
| Output | $0.60Best | $7.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.5 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | none, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Mistral Saba
- Mistral Medium 3.5
Intelligence Index
- Mistral Saba6.5
- Mistral Medium 3.5—
Mistral Saba: Better than 5% of 326 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Mistral Saba: 4.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.5: —
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Mistral Saba: 42.4%
- Mistral Medium 3.5: —
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Mistral Saba: 61.1%
- Mistral Medium 3.5: —
Math
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Mistral Saba: 13.0%
- Mistral Medium 3.5: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Mistral Saba: 67.7%
- Mistral Medium 3.5: —
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026.
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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