Compare all 3 Mistral vision models we track, 2 of them open-weight. Try them on your own images, free in the Roboflow Playground.
3 models · 2 open-weight · 3 free to try · Updated Aug 2025
Mistral ships vision models on two tiers, and our catalog tracks 3 of them. 2 are open-weight: the weights are downloadable, so you can self-host under their own licenses. The other 1 is proprietary, reached through an API and billed by the provider. The open-weight side runs on Apache 2.0 terms. The newest additions are Mistral Medium 3.1 (Aug 2025) and Mistral Small 3.1 24B (Mar 2025).
Between them, the Mistral models we list cover 9 distinct vision tasks. The widest coverage is captioning (3 models), chart question answering (3), and classification (3). For captioning, start with Mistral Medium 3.1, Mistral Small 3.1 24B, or Pixtral 12B.
On the open-weight tier, Mistral Small 3.1 24B is the largest at 24B parameters and Pixtral 12B the smallest at 12B. Both carry a permissive license, so commercial use is straightforward.
On the API tier, the one option is Mistral Medium 3.1 (Aug 2025), billed per token by the provider rather than run on your own hardware. Which tier to start on is a constraints question, not a quality one: reach for the open-weight side when you need offline inference, predictable per-image cost, or a checkpoint you can fine-tune on your own data, and for the API side when you want broad general reasoning without managing GPUs. All 3 Mistral vision models run live in the Roboflow Playground, so you can run the same image through several of them and compare the answers before committing to one.
What each of the 3 Mistral vision models in our catalog is built for, and how you run it.
2 models with downloadable weights you can self-host under their licenses (Apache 2.0). All run live in the Playground through hosted APIs, so self-hosting is optional.
1 proprietary model where the weights aren't downloadable: access is through each provider's API and billed by them. Try all of them free in the Playground.
3 of the 3 Mistral vision models we track handle captioning: Mistral Medium 3.1, Mistral Small 3.1 24B, and Pixtral 12B. Each model page lists its full task coverage, license, and specs.
3 of the 3 Mistral vision models we track handle chart question answering: Mistral Medium 3.1, Mistral Small 3.1 24B, and Pixtral 12B. Each model page lists its full task coverage, license, and specs.
Partly. 2 of the 3 Mistral vision models we track are open-weight (for example Mistral Small 3.1 24B and Pixtral 12B), downloadable and self-hostable under their licenses (Apache 2.0). The other 1 are proprietary and reached through Mistral's API.
We do not publish a Mistral-only ranking, so pick on constraints rather than a label. 3 Mistral models handle captioning; the most recent is Mistral Medium 3.1 (Aug 2025), and Mistral Small 3.1 24B is the newest open-weight option if you need to self-host. For fixed categories in production, a model fine-tuned on your own data typically beats any general-purpose model.
We track 3 live Mistral vision models, 2 open-weight and 1 available through an API. The most recent addition is Mistral Medium 3.1, released Aug 2025.
Yes. All 3 Mistral models run live in the Roboflow Playground. Upload your own image, run several models on it at once, and compare the outputs side by side. No setup and no account required.
This page lists all 3 Mistral vision models in the Roboflow Playground catalog: 2 open-weight models you can self-host and 1 proprietary model accessed through an API. They cover captioning, chart question answering, and classification, among other tasks. All of them run live in the Roboflow Playground on your own images. Compare licenses, parameters, prices, and release dates side by side, or open any model page for full details.