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Saba
by Mistral
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.
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About Saba
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.
Notes
Saba is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
Key facts
What we have checked
- Input price
- $0.200 per million tokens
- Output price
- $0.600 per million tokens
- Latest version
- mistralai/mistral-saba-2502
- Tokens served on OpenRouter in a day
- 9.4M (for 10 Nov 2026)
- Tool calls on OpenRouter in a day
- 169 (for 10 Nov 2026)
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 6.5
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API access
How to call it
Call via OpenRouter with model id `mistralai/mistral-saba`.
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mistralai/mistral-saba· Docs
OpenRouter id: mistralai/mistral-saba
Price
What Saba costs, over time
$0.200 to $0.200
$0.600 to $0.600
Usage
How much Saba is used
889.4K to 9.4M
Scores
How Saba scores
Each score comes from the named source and shows when we last confirmed it. A flag means the score needs care.
| Score | Value | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 6.5indexAs of 26 Oct 2026 | Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter |
Sources
Where this comes from
- OpenRouter models APIRegistry
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- Artificial Analysis via OpenRouterThird party
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Changelog
What changed
No changes recorded yet. Releases, price changes and deprecations appear here, with their dates, once we track them for this record.
USAGE / OPENROUTER
How much Saba is used
Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.
- Tokens, last 7 days
- 30.1M ▲55.7%
- Requests, last 7 days
- 38.6K
- Tool calls, last 7 days
- 512
- Price per million tokens
- $0.2 in · $0.6 out
MODEL FIELD GUIDE / SOURCE EVIDENCE
What you can do with Saba.
Listed specifications; no EDNA task evaluation has been run. Sources checked 2026-11-07. Hosting routes and app features can differ.
mistralai/mistral-saba- Tool calling
- Listed support
- Structured output
- Listed support
- Reasoning controls
- Not established
- Availability
- available
- Price basis
- token
- Licence verification
- Check the developer licence; the model name is insufficient
- Context length
- 33K tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- 30 Sept 2024
- Developer release date
- Not established
- First seen in the catalogue
- 17 Feb 2025
- Listed retirement date
- Not established
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Checked 2026-11-07Source for first seen, tool calling, context length, input, knowledge cutoff, output, structured output.
Checked 2026-11-07FROM SPECIFICATIONS TO YOUR WORK
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