Mistral AI · small open-weight · Released 2024-03-28

Magistral 1.5B: pricing, context window and benchmarks

Magistral 1.5B is a small open-weight model from Mistral AI. It offers a 4,096-token context window, costs $0.67 per million input tokens and $2.43 per million output tokens, and averages 52.7 across the index's benchmark suite.

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Input price
$0.67
per 1M tokens
Output price
$2.43
per 1M tokens
Context
4,096
tokens
Avg score
52.7
rank #538 of 600
Arena Elo
1208.3
modelled
Max output
4,096
tokens

Pricing

Magistral 1.5B costs $0.67 per million input tokens and $2.43 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $1.11 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.10 per million tokens.

ItemPriceNotes
Input$0.67per 1M tokens
Output$2.43per 1M tokens
Cached input$0.10per 1M tokens
Blended 3:1$1.11estimate per 1M tokens
1M in + 1M out$3.10estimate

Benchmarks

Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 59.2 536 11th
GPQA Diamond 46.8 550 8th
SWE-bench Verified 40.3 519 14th
HumanEval 58.0 524 13th
MATH-500 52.9 534 11th
AIME 2025 39.3 545 9th
LiveCodeBench 36.9 557 7th
IFEval 62.6 549 9th
TruthfulQA 59.4 537 11th
HellaSwag 71.4 513 15th
MMMU 52.8 523 13th
Arena Elo 1208.3 546 9th

What Magistral 1.5B is good for

Magistral 1.5B is a small model. That makes it a good fit for classification, extraction, routing, summarization and other high-volume jobs where latency and cost dominate. It is not the right pick for open-ended frontier reasoning, but at $0.67 per million input tokens it can handle a large share of production traffic.

Strengths

  • Input price of $0.67 per million tokens is at or below the index median.
  • Open weights make self-hosting, fine-tuning and data-residency review possible.

Trade-offs

  • Context window of 4,096 tokens is small for long-document work.
  • Average benchmark score is below the index median; test it on your own task.
  • Less reliable on open-ended reasoning and complex multi-step instructions.

How it compares

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Kimi K1.5 1.5B Moonshot AI 4096 $0.75 53.2
Llama 4 Scout 1.5B Meta AI 8192 $0.66 53.0
Qwen3-Coder 1.5B Alibaba Cloud 32768 $0.76 52.8
Magistral 1.5B Mistral AI 4096 $0.67 52.7
OLMo 2 8B Allen Institute for AI 4096 $0.64 52.5
Arctic 8B Snowflake 8192 $0.65 52.4

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FAQ

How much does Magistral 1.5B cost?

Magistral 1.5B is listed at $0.67 per million input tokens and $2.43 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.098 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $1.11 per million tokens.

What is the context window of Magistral 1.5B?

Magistral 1.5B has a context window of 4,096 tokens and can emit up to 4,096 output tokens per request in this index.

Is Magistral 1.5B open weights?

Yes. Magistral 1.5B is listed as an open-weight model under a open weights licence.

How does Magistral 1.5B score on benchmarks?

Magistral 1.5B averages 52.7 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #538 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1208.3.

What is Magistral 1.5B best for?

Magistral 1.5B is a small model. That makes it a good fit for classification, extraction, routing, summarization and other high-volume jobs where latency and cost dominate. It is not the right pick for open-ended frontier reasoning, but at $0.67 per million input tokens it can handle a large share of production traffic.

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