Mistral Saba is a 24B-parameter language model specifically designed for the Middle East and South Asia, delivering accurate and contextually relevant responses while maintaining efficient performance. Trained on curated regional datasets, it supports multiple Indian-origin languages—including Tamil and Malayalam—alongside Arabic. This makes it a versatile option for a range of regional and multilingual applications. Read more at the blog post hereOpens in new tab
Providers
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).
| $0.20 | $0.60 | $0.020 | 0.38s | 69 tok/s | ||
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used | ||||||
| $0.22 | $0.66 | $0.022 | -- | -- | ||
Input $0.20 / Output $0.6069 tok/s100.00% uptime- Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Input $0.22 / Output $0.66-- tok/s100.00% uptime
Pricing
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Weighted average
Saba — Price history
| $0.0789 | $0.599 | 67.1% | 95.8% | ||
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used | |||||
| $0.1210 | $0.652 | 49.9% | 4.2% | ||
- Effective in $0.0789 / Effective out $0.599Token share95.8%
- Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
- Effective in $0.1210 / Effective out $0.652Token share4.2%
Performance
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
P50, best across providers
P50, best provider
Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Availability over the last 3 days
Last 72 hoursAvailability over the last 24 hours
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | Mistral Saba GPQA Diamond | 42.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | Mistral Saba HLE | 4.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Mistral Saba MMLU-Pro | 61.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | Mistral Saba AIME | 13.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Mistral Saba MATH-500 | 67.7% |
Apps
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
API
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Available through EU in-region routing
Mistral: Saba is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).
- Providers in Europe
- Mistral
- Prices in Europe
- Mistral: $0.22/M tokens input, $0.66/M tokens output
- Base URL
https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1- Plan
- Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing
Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs
Frequently asked questions
Mistral Saba is a 24B-parameter language model specifically designed for the Middle East and South Asia, delivering accurate and contextually relevant responses while maintaining efficient performance. Trained on curated regional datasets, it supports multiple Indian-origin languages—including Tamil and Malayalam—alongside Arabic.
Saba costs $0.20/M input tokens and $0.60/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.02/M tokens.
Saba has a 32,768 token context window.
Yes. Saba accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
Saba accepts text and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.
Saba is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: Mistral.
Mistral Large 4, Mistral Medium 3.5, Mistral Small 4 and 16 more are other text models from Mistral.
Saba was released on February 17, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is September 30, 2024.