Saba
Mistral AI · released Feb 17, 2025
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- $0.20
- Output
- $0.60
- Cached
- $0.020
List price · per 1M tokens · Mistral AI at 33K context · source ↗
Our take
Written Aug 2, 2026Saba is a lightweight text-and-file model from Mistral AI with a 32,768-token request limit. It is a hosted-only option with flat pricing across its two providers, though no benchmark scores or parameter count have been published.
Pick this for basic text and file processing where cost predictability matters — the same rate applies on both tracked hosts. Use it if you want Mistral's own infrastructure at 36.5 tokens per second. Skip it if you need verified quality scores, if you want to self-host, or if you need throughput guarantees on OpenRouter where speed is unmeasured.
The case for it
- Identical pricing across both providers eliminates arbitrage complexity.
- Hosted on Mistral's own infrastructure at 36.5 tokens per second.
The case against it
- No verified quality benchmarks in our data — no Elo, MMLU, or other scores published.
- Throughput unverified on one of two offers.
- Parameter count undisclosed, so efficiency claims cannot be checked.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up Saba — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
Why this differs from the header. The strip above quotes Mistral AI's own list price. This is the cheapest live offer at the widest standard context we hold, whoever is serving it — a reseller undercutting a lab is ordinary commerce, not an error.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.20 in / $0.60 out
- Context served
- 33K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.20 / $0.60 | 33K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Mistral AI | $0.20 / $0.60 | 33K | 115 tok/s | No | Yes30 days | Unknown |
Mistral AIAcross the 2 listings we hold: 1 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mistral AI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 2 of 2 listings say yes. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 2 of 2 listings say yes.
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text+file->text
- Catalogue slug
- mistralai-saba