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Mistral Small 24B - structured output, nailed.

Mistral's 24B dense model from January 2025. Tuned for function calling and structured formats. When your pipeline needs valid JSON every time, this is a safe pick.

At a glance

Mistral Small 24B via Smart Inference.

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24B
Parameters

Dense Transformer

32K
Context window

tokens per request

Cheapest input price

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Pricing

Mistral Small 24B: price comparison.

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Quick start

Use Mistral Small 24B in three lines.

OpenAI-compatible. Swap your base_url, keep everything else.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://smart.aivory.net/v1",
    api_key="sk-aivory-...",
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Ship it."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

That's the whole migration. Get early access and try it →

Use cases

What Mistral Small 24B is great at.

  1. Reliable Function Calling

    Give Mistral Small a set of tool definitions and it picks the right one with correctly formatted arguments. Lower hallucination rate on function names and parameter types than most models in this size range.

  2. JSON Schema Compliance

    Define a JSON schema in your system prompt and Mistral Small follows it. Use it for data extraction pipelines where downstream systems reject malformed output. The structured output consistency saves debugging time.

  3. Multilingual Customer Support

    Handles French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese well. Mistral trained it with European language focus. Run a single model for EU customer support instead of maintaining per-language systems.

FAQ

Common questions.

What does Mistral Small 24B cost on AIVory?

In the same price range as other 24B-27B models. Cheaper than any 70B model but more expensive than Nemo 12B. Check the live table above for current rates.

Mistral Small 24B vs Mistral Small 3.2 - which one?

The 3.2 version adds image input and a 128K context window (vs 32K). If you need vision or long context, use 3.2. For text-only structured output with shorter inputs, the original is fine and may be slightly cheaper.

How does it compare to Qwen 3.5 27B for function calling?

Both are strong. Mistral Small has better European language support. Qwen 3.5 is better at coding and multi-step tool chains. If your tools are mostly API calls with simple schemas, either works.

Is 32K context enough?

For most structured output tasks, yes. Function calling requests are typically short. If you're processing long documents, consider Mistral Small 3.2 (128K) or Mistral Nemo (128K, 12B) instead.

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