Mistral Small 24B

Summary: Mistral Small 24B is a high-performance multilingual and multimodal model from Mistral, built for conversational agents and virtual assistants. It supports a wide range of European languages, is optimized for speed and quality, and can process text, images, and mixed input. Images can be provided as URLs or base64-encoded strings, allowing the model to analyze and respond to visual content in addition to text. This model is particularly effective for applications requiring fast and reliable chat completions, making it suitable for real-time interactions in various domains. The model supports advanced capabilities like streaming and tool calling, enhancing its usability in interactive applications.

Intelligence	Speed	Input	Output
Moderate	High	Text, Image	Text

Central parameters

Description: Medium-sized model with 24B parameters featuring a 128k token context window. Images are processed as input tokens, so including images in your requests will increase the total input token count. Token billing is based on the total number of tokens processed, including both input and output tokens.

Model identifier: mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct

IONOS CLOUD AI Model Hub Lifecycle and Alternatives

IONOS start date	End of Life	Alternative	Successor
August 1, 2025	N/A	Llama 3.3 (70B)

Origin

Provider	Country	License	Flavor	Release
Mistral AI	France	License	Instruct	June 25, 2025

Technology

Context window	Parameters	Quantization	Multilingual	Further details
128k	24B	fp8	Yes	Hugging Face

Modalities

Text	Image	Audio
Input and output	Input	Not supported

Endpoints

Chat Completions	Embeddings	Image generation
v1/chat/completions	Not supported	Not supported

Vision model example

{
  "model": "mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct",
   "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
          {
            "type": "text",
            "text": "What do you see in this image?"
          },
          {
            "type": "image_url",
            "image_url": {
              "url": "https://www.ionos.com/favicon.ico?v2",
              "detail": "auto"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "temperature": 0.7,
    "max_tokens": 1000
  }

Base64 image example

When providing a base64 encoded image, use the image_url type and map the url field to your data URI. Example: data:image/jpeg;base64,...

{
  "model": "mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": "What's in this image?"
        },
        {
          "type": "image_url",
          "image_url": {
            "url": "data:image/vnd.microsoft.icon;base64,AAABAAcAEBAQAAEABAAoAQAAdgAAABgYEAABAAQA6AEAAJ4BAAAgIBAAAQAEAOgCAACGAwAAMDAQAAEABABoBgAAbgYAAEBAEAABAAQAaAoAANYMAABISBAAAQAEAOgNAAA+FwAAYGAQAAEABADoFgAAJiUAACgAAAAQAAAAIAAAAAEAB...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA="
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "max_tokens": 1000
}

Response:

{
  "id": "chatcmpl-20dce5f1-5556-4c1e-ae47-7a497a376746",
  "object": "chat.completion",
  "created": 1769429443,
  "model": "mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct",
  "choices": [
    {
      "index": 0,
      "message": {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "The image displays a single, thin, vertical white line against a solid dark blue background. The line appears to be positioned towards the left side of the image. The overall design is minimalistic and abstract, with a focus on the contrast between the white line and the dark background.",
        "refusal": null,
        "annotations": null,
        "audio": null,
        "function_call": null,
        "tool_calls": [],
        "reasoning": null,
        "reasoning_content": null
      },
      "logprobs": null,
      "finish_reason": "stop",
      "stop_reason": null,
      "token_ids": null
    }
  ],
  "service_tier": null,
  "system_fingerprint": null,
  "usage": {
    "prompt_tokens": 29,
    "total_tokens": 86,
    "completion_tokens": 57,
    "prompt_tokens_details": null
  },
  "prompt_logprobs": null,
  "prompt_token_ids": null,
  "kv_transfer_params": null
}

Features

Streaming	Reasoning	Tool calling
Supported	Not supported	Supported

Rate limits

Rate limits ensure fair usage and reliable access to the AI Model Hub. In addition to the contract-wide rate limits, no model-specific limits apply.