mistralai / text-generation API-only released 2025-02-17

Saba

Name: Saba
Price: 0.2 USD
Author: mistralai

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...

Input / 1M

$0.20

Output / 1M

$0.60

Context

32.8K

AA Intelligence

6.5

Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text + file → text Knowledge cutoff Sep 2024 View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24

$0.20

input / 1M

$0.60

output / 1M

$0.02

cached input / 1M

$0.80

1M in + 1M out

Context window: 32,768 tokens
Max output: 26,214 tokens
Providers: 1
Cheapest provider: Mistral · $0.20 / $0.60
Best throughput: —
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic: 6.5 / — / —

✓ Tool calling ✗ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✗ Image input ✓ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)

Current: $0.20 input · $0.60 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index: 6.5
AA Coding Index: —
AA Agentic Index: —

Providers

1 provider · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics

Provider	Quant	Context	Input	Output	Uptime	Tok/s
Mistral	unknown	32.8K	$0.20	$0.60	—	—
Mistral	unknown	32.8K	$0.20	$0.60	—	—
Mistral	unknown	32.8K	$0.22	$0.66	—	—

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Specifications

Organisation: mistralai
Released on OpenRouter: 2025-02-17
Context window: 32,768 tokens
Max output: 26,214 tokens
Input: text, file
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: September 2024
Tokenizer: Mistral
Moderated by provider: No
OpenRouter id: mistralai/mistral-saba

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