Obituaries · Mistral
mistral-saba-2502, 2025–2025
Mistral model switched off after 7 months
Mistral has confirmed the retirement of mistral-saba-2502, effective September 30, 2025, aged 7 months. It answered questions, wrote emails and was blamed for both. Code that still calls it will find out the hard way.
Survived by Mistral Small 4, younger, cheaper, and named in the same documentation table.
| Model ID | mistral-saba-2502 |
|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral deprecations page |
| Born | February 1, 2025 |
| Shut down | September 30, 2025 |
| Successor | Mistral Small 4 |
In lieu of flowers
Replace the string. Search your code for mistral-saba-2502 and swap it for Mistral Small 4, or paste a repo into Model Graveyard Check to find every dead model at once.
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