Migrating from mistral-small-2501 to mistral-small-2503
What changes when you move from mistral-small-2501 to mistral-small-2503: input price 0%, output price 0%, context window 32,000 → 128,000 tokens.
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Nov 30, 2025
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Nov 30, 2025
- Time left
- —
mistral-small-2503 is itself retired. Its replacement is mistral-small-2603.
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | mistral-small-2501 | mistral-small-2503 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.10first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $0.10first seen October 5, 2026 · source | 0% |
| Output | $0.30first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $0.30first seen October 5, 2026 · source | 0% |
At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $0.175 on mistral-small-2501, $0.175 on mistral-small-2503 (0%).
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
Tokens| Limit | mistral-small-2501 | mistral-small-2503 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 32,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 128,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | +300% |
| Max output tokens | Not published | Not published | — |
Benchmarks
Same benchmark, source and setting on both sides| Benchmark | mistral-small-2501 | mistral-small-2503 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena TextArena. Ranges don't overlap. | 1274 ±6 | 1303 ±5 | +29 |
| Arena Text: CodingArena. Ranges don't overlap. | 1312 ±12 | 1361 ±8 | +49 |
| GPQA DiamondEpoch AI. | 47.3% | 41.9% | −5.4 pts |
| MATH Level 5Epoch AI. | 44.8% | 46.8% | +2.0 pts |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Epoch AI. | 6.7% | 3.9% | −2.8 pts |
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; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.
Features and parameters
Compare modelsSame on both
- Structured outputs: supported on both.mistral-small-2501: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-small-2503: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Function calling: supported on both.mistral-small-2501: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-small-2503: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Batch API: supported on both.mistral-small-2501: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-small-2503: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- PDF input: supported on both.mistral-small-2501: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-small-2503: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Not published for mistral-small-2501: Prompt caching, Image input, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.
Not published for mistral-small-2503: 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-small-2503 | Microsoft Foundryversion 1 | mistral-small-2503 | 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-small-2501tomistral-small-2503.
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: mistral-small-2501, mistral-small-2503.