Migrating from mistral-medium-2505 to mistral-medium-2508
What changes when you move from mistral-medium-2505 to mistral-medium-2508: input price 0%, output price 0%.
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Aug 31, 2026
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Aug 31, 2026
- Time left
- —
mistral-medium-2508 is itself retired. Its replacement is mistral-medium-3-5.
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | mistral-medium-2505 | mistral-medium-2508 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.40first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $0.40first seen October 5, 2026 · source | 0% |
| Output | $2.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $2.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source | 0% |
At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $0.90 on mistral-medium-2505, $0.90 on mistral-medium-2508 (0%).
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
Tokens| Limit | mistral-medium-2505 | mistral-medium-2508 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 128,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 0% |
| Max output tokens | Not published | Not published | — |
Benchmarks
Same benchmark, source and setting on both sides| Benchmark | mistral-medium-2505 | mistral-medium-2508 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena TextArena. Ranges don't overlap. | 1387 ±5 | 1408 ±3 | +21 |
| Arena Text: CodingArena. Ranges don't overlap. | 1432 ±8 | 1454 ±5 | +22 |
| Arena VisionArena. | 1155 ±8 | 1159 ±6 | +4 within range |
A score from one source is never compared with another source's, and company-reported scores are compared only within the same company; settings named where they differ. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.
Features and parameters
Compare modelsSame on both
- Structured outputs: supported on both.mistral-medium-2505: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-2508: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Function calling: supported on both.mistral-medium-2505: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-2508: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Batch API: supported on both.mistral-medium-2505: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-2508: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Image input: supported on both.mistral-medium-2505: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-2508: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- PDF input: supported on both.mistral-medium-2505: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-2508: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Not published for mistral-medium-2505: Prompt caching, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.
Not published for mistral-medium-2508: Prompt caching, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at either model.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mistral-medium-2505 | Microsoft Foundryversion 1 | mistral-medium-2505 | none announcedActive |
Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.
Checklist
- Change the model string from
mistral-medium-2505tomistral-medium-2508.
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: mistral-medium-2505, mistral-medium-2508.