Saba
ActiveMistral 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...
Overview
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...
History
Saba became available via the Mistral AI API on 2025-02-17.
Training & availability
Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2024-09-30 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. Mistral AI has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.
Capabilities
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Context window: 32K tokens.
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Input modalities: text.
Recommended for: cheap.
Limitations
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The knowledge cutoff is 18 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.
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The context window (32K tokens) is modest by 2026 standards — unsuitable for processing long documents in a single request.
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Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.
Pricing
- Input: $0.2000 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.6000 per 1M tokens
Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.
Quick start
Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistral/mistral-saba",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.
Integrations & tooling support
- Tool calling
- Not supported
- Structured outputs
- Not supported
Price vs quality
Priced low — good for high-volume tasks. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.
- Quality percentile
- —
- Effective price
- $0.5/1M
- Pricing breakdown
- $0.2/1M in
$0.6/1M out
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