Magistral Small 1.2
Mistral AIMULTIMODAL Open weight
- Provider
- Mistral AI
- Modality
- MULTIMODAL
- Parameters
- 24B
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Weights
- Open
- Released
- 18 Sept 2025
Magistral Small 1.2 (Sept 2025) is a 24B Apache-2.0 reasoning model with strong AIME math and transparent chain-of-thought that runs on a single consumer GPU.
Best for
- Multi-step reasoning and AIME-class math with visible thinking
- Competitive coding (LiveCodeBench ~71)
- Multimodal reasoning (added a vision encoder in 1.2)
- An open reasoning model you fully control
How it compares — and the India angle
- Standout self-host reasoning option for India: runs on a single RTX 4090 or 32GB Mac at 4-bit (~15-19GB).
- Zero USD billing when self-hosted, unlike API-only reasoning models.
- Magistral Medium 1.2 (proprietary API) scores higher for those who prefer managed access.
Benchmarks
Representative public scores (approximate, higher is better) for relative comparison. Check the provider for the latest official results.
GPQA Diamond70
AIME (math)86
How to access
API ~$0.50 / 1M input, ~$1.50 / 1M output. Apache 2.0 (free to self-host).
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