Mistral Small 2506
Key facts · verified Oct 29, 2026
Mistral Small 2506 is a Mistral AI model released on 20 Jun 2025. It was retired on 31 July 2026. Its last listed API price was $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens. Its context window is 128K tokens. It ranks #213 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1356, read 1 Nov 2026). Source: docs.mistral.ai.
Mistral Small 2506 (Mistral Small 3.2) is a model from Mistral AI, released on June 20, 2025 with a 128K-token context window and open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence. Mistral deprecated it on 30 April 2026 and retired it from its API on 31 July 2026, naming Mistral Small 4 as the replacement. Third-party pricing listed in LMArena's dataset was $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens. 1356 Elo (rank 213)
Full Specifications
$0.10 / $0.30 per million tokens | |
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| Identity | |
| Developer | Mistral AI |
| Released | Jun 2025 |
| Retired | 31 July 2026 |
| Status | Retired. Mistral deprecated it on 30 April 2026 and retired it on 31 July 2026; replacement: Mistral Small 4. |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Cost | |
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | $0.150 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | $0.100 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $0.300 / 1M tokens |
| Capacity | |
| Context window | 128K tokens |
| Measured quality | |
| LMArena Elo | 1356 (checked Nov 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 213 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | 9040 |