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Mistral AI · 11 tracked releases · September 27, 2023 – October 6, 2026

At a glance

Releases tracked11
First trackedSeptember 27, 2023 — Mistral 7B
LatestOctober 6, 2026 — Mistral Large 4
Span1,105 days
Median gap74 days between releases
Weights9 of 11 open
Record quality5 of 11 verified · how this is judged

Release cadence

One tile per tracked release, placed in the month it shipped, so the pauses in this line are the pauses in the data. Years with nothing tracked keep their row.

  1. 2023
    1. Mistral 7B, Mistral AI, September 27, 2023
    1
  2. 2024
    1. Mistral Large 2, Mistral AI, July 24, 2024
    1
  3. 2025
    1. Mistral Small 3, Mistral AI, January 30, 2025
    2. Mistral Large 3, Mistral AI, December 2, 2025Ministral 3 3B, Mistral AI, December 2, 2025Ministral 3 8B, Mistral AI, December 2, 2025Ministral 3 14B, Mistral AI, December 2, 2025
    5
  4. 2026
    1. Mistral Small 4, Mistral AI, March 16, 2026
    2. Mistral Medium 3.5, Mistral AI, May 22, 2026
    3. Shieldstral 1.0 3B, Mistral AI, August 4, 2026
    4. Mistral Large 4, Mistral AI, October 6, 2026
    4

Lineage

Ordered by announcement date, and spaced by the gap between releases, so a quiet year looks like one. Lineage is not inferred from version numbers — labs do not number consistently, so the dates decide the order.

  1. Mistral 7BText in and out

    coding

  2. +301 days

    Mistral Large 2Text in and out

    function callingmultilingualtool use

  3. +190 days

    Mistral Small 3Text in and out

    agentic

  4. +306 days

    4 released the same day

    Mistral Large 3Text in and outImage input

    vision

    from Mistral Large 2 Context window 128K → 256KParameters 123B → 675BWeights Proprietary → Openfirst evidenced: visionfirst evidenced: image in

    Ministral 3 3BText in and outImage input
    Ministral 3 8BText in and outImage input
    Ministral 3 14BText in and outImage input

  5. +104 days

    Mistral Small 4Text in and outImage input

    reasoning

    from Mistral Small 3 Context window 33K → 256KParameters 24B → 119Bfirst evidenced: vision, reasoning, codingfirst evidenced: image in

  6. +67 days

    Mistral Medium 3.5

  7. +74 days

    Shieldstral 1.0 3BText in and out

  8. +63 days

    Mistral Large 4

    from Mistral Large 3 Parameters 675B → 1TWeights Open → Proprietary

Context window over time

Only releases with a disclosed context window appear — 2 of 11 are not shown.

Mistral 7B · 2023 8K tokens
Mistral Large 2 · 2024 128K tokens
Mistral Small 3 · 2025 33K tokens
Mistral Large 3 · 2025 256K tokens
Ministral 3 3B · 2025 256K tokens
Ministral 3 8B · 2025 256K tokens
Ministral 3 14B · 2025 256K tokens
Mistral Small 4 · 2026 256K tokens
Mistral Medium 3.5 · 2026 256K tokens

What changed

Generation to generation, from evidenced values only. A field is compared only where both releases record it — otherwise it is called out as not comparable, so a research gap never reads as a change the lab made.

Mistral Large 2 → Mistral Large 3 496 days

Context window
128K → 256K
Parameters
123B → 675B
Weights
Proprietary → Open
Capabilities first evidenced
+ vision
Modalities first evidenced
+ image in

Mistral Small 3 → Mistral Small 4 410 days

Context window
33K → 256K
Parameters
24B → 119B
Capabilities first evidenced
+ vision + reasoning + coding
Modalities first evidenced
+ image in

Mistral Large 3 → Mistral Large 4 308 days

Parameters
675B → 1T
Weights
Open → Proprietary

Not comparable here: context window (not disclosed for both releases); capabilities and modalities (not researched on both releases).

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