Mistral Small 3.2

Shut downMistral AImistral/mistral-small-3-21 platform

Dates on every platform

1 listings · a floor is the earliest possible date

Mistral Small 3.2 on each platform: model ID, status, dates, replacement and source
Platform	Model ID and status	Deprecated	Shuts down	Replacement
Mistral APIMistral AI: Models Overview (opens in a new tab) · checked Oct 14, 2026	`mistral-small-2506`Shut down	Apr 30, 2026	Jul 31, 2026Shut down	Mistral Small 4

Mistral's models overview still showed the status Deprecated on 14 October 2026, after the retirement date.

The mistral-small-latest alias pointed to this model before it moved to Mistral Small 4.

Behavior
Magistral models always returned thinking traces. Mistral Small 4 and Mistral Medium 3.5 reason through the reasoning_effort parameter: high returns a thinking chunk before the answer, none omits it.
Mistral Small 3.2, Magistral Small 1.2 to Mistral Small 4 · Mistral API · Jul 31, 2026

Third-party results, credited below

Third-party benchmark scores for Mistral Small 3.2
Benchmark	Publisher	Score	Rank	Published
Arena Text	Arena	1,356 ± 3	#95 of 128	Oct 8, 2026

Arena (arena.ai), https://arena.ai/leaderboard

Jul 31, 2026ShutdownMistral Small 3.2 and Magistral Small 1.2 retire from the Mistral APIMistral API1 break

mistral-small-2506 and magistral-small-2509 retired on 31 July 2026. Mistral names Mistral Small 4 as the replacement for both.

BehaviorMagistral models always returned thinking traces. Mistral Small 4 and Mistral Medium 3.5 reason through the reasoning_effort parameter: high returns a thinking chunk before the answer, none omits it.