Saba — Mistral AI | Modeldex

Saba

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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...

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Budget

Knowledge cutoff

Sep 30, 2024(1.6 years ago)

API release

Feb 17, 2025(1.2 years ago)

Not enough benchmark coverage yet for an Intelligence Index — needs at least 3 results across 2 categories.

Overview

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

Context window: 32K tokens.
Input modalities: text.

Recommended for: cheap.

Limitations

The knowledge cutoff is 18 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.
The context window (32K tokens) is modest by 2026 standards — unsuitable for processing long documents in a single request.
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.

Input tokens / month5.0M

@ $0.2/1M

Output tokens / month2.0M

@ $0.6/1M

Input cost

5.0M × $0.2/1M

Output cost

$1.2

2.0M × $0.6/1M

Total / month

$2.2

$26.4 / year

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Not supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Budget pricing

Priced low — good for high-volume tasks. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.