Magistral Small 2509 adds image understanding; this profile remains specific to the text-only 2506 release

The OnAirToday AI Progress Tracker recorded a verified change to Mistral AI's Magistral Small (version magistral-small-2506): Magistral Small 2509 adds image understanding; this profile remains specific to the text-only 2506 release.

Magistral Small 2506 is Mistral AI’s 24-billion-parameter, open-weight reasoning model, released under Apache 2.0 for multilingual, text-based problem solving. The newer Magistral Small 2509 adds image understanding; this profile remains specific to the text-only 2506 release.

What changed in this review:

• Capability score 54 → 71

Teams building on Magistral Small should confirm limits, pricing and benchmark coverage against the vendor's own documentation before relying on these figures.

The full profile — capabilities, benchmark citations, known flaws and risk guidance — is on the tracker at /ai-models/magistral-small.

References:

• https://mistral.ai/news/magistral
• https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2506
• https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2509