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Figure 16: Mistral Small 3.1 24B · diagram by Sebastian Raschka · click to zoom
DenseMistral AI 🇫🇷 · March 18, 2025

Mistral Small 3.1 (24B)

Fast dense 24B model that drops the sliding-window setup used in older Mistral releases.

Key detail

Latency-focused design with a smaller KV cache and fewer layers than Gemma 3 27B.

Parameters

24B

Context

128K

KV / token

160 KiB

Fact sheet

Scale
24B parameters
Context window
128,000 tokens
Decoder type
Dense
Attention
Standard GQA
Layer mix
40 GQA
KV cache / token (bf16)
160 KiB · Moderate
License
Apache License 2.0
Released

Efficiency

Parameters active per token

100%

Dense: every weight runs for every token.

KV cache per token (bf16)

160 KiB

Smaller than 31% of models in the atlas. How it’s calculated

AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2

Source

7.1

General
12.8
Scientific
2.2
Coding
13.9
Agents
0.2

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