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Mistral labs-mistral-small-creative

Mistral Small Creative (Mistral)

Retired

Yes — Mistral Small Creative is retired. Mistral deprecated it on March 31, 2026 and shut it down on April 30, 2026; API requests to it now fail. The recommended replacement is Ministral 3 8B.

A writing-tuned Small that traded benchmark scores for prose that did not read like an assistant. It never left labs and lasted four months. Mistral pointed it at Ministral 3 8B rather than Mistral Small 4, which is a smaller model - a reminder that the named replacement is the provider's recommendation, not a claim of equivalence.

The facts

Provider Mistral
Model id labs-mistral-small-creative
Released —
Deprecated March 31, 2026
Shutdown April 30, 2026 · 95 days ago
Status Retired
Last verified August 3, 2026

What to use instead

Mistral Ministral 3 8B ministral-3-8b-25-12 Provider-recommended Active

What parameters ministral-3-8b-25-12 accepts on modelparams.dev

Change the id

In most cases the migration is one string. Check the parameter differences before you ship — newer models drop older sampling knobs more often than they add them. 

- "model": "labs-mistral-small-creative"
+ "model": "ministral-3-8b-25-12"

Frequently asked questions

When did Mistral Small Creative shut down?
Mistral Small Creative shut down on April 30, 2026. API requests to it fail from that date onward.
What replaces Mistral Small Creative?
Mistral recommends Ministral 3 8B (`ministral-3-8b-25-12`) as the replacement for Mistral Small Creative.
Is Mistral Small Creative still available?
No. Mistral Small Creative is retired and no longer served — it was shut down on April 30, 2026. Calls to it return an error.
How do I migrate from Mistral Small Creative to ministral-3-8b-25-12?
Swap the model id in your API call: replace "labs-mistral-small-creative" with "ministral-3-8b-25-12". Keep the rest of the request the same, then re-check the parameters the new model accepts before you ship.

Sources

Found something wrong? The data is one YAML file — edit it on GitHub.

This page, for machines

JSON Markdown Badge JSON

Drop the badge in a README so it turns red the day this model is retired:

[![labs-mistral-small-creative](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://modeldeprecations.dev/badge/mistral/labs-mistral-small-creative.json)](https://modeldeprecations.dev/mistral/labs-mistral-small-creative)

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How to use this site

The full guide, in Markdown. Copy it and hand it to a coding agent verbatim.

# How to use modeldeprecations.dev

[modeldeprecations.dev](https://modeldeprecations.dev) answers one question per model: is it deprecated,
when does it shut down, and what replaces it. Every date on the site is cited to the
provider's own documentation, with the date we last checked it.

Three lifecycle states are used, matching the providers' own vocabulary:

- **active** — still supported, no deprecation announced.
- **deprecated** — the provider has announced it is going away. It still answers requests.
- **retired** — API access is gone. Requests fail.

A model can be active *and* carry a shutdown date: Anthropic publishes a
"not sooner than" date and Google publishes an earliest shutdown date for models
that are current and fully supported. Those are reported as scheduled shutdowns,
not deprecations, because that is what the provider actually committed to.

## Check one model

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/models/openai/gpt-4-32k.json
```

Or fetch the page as Markdown, which includes the answer, the dates and the sources:

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/openai/gpt-4-32k.md
```

## Full catalog

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/models.json
```

Ids are `provider/model`. Dated snapshots (`gpt-4-32k-0613`) are listed as aliases of
their canonical entry rather than as separate records.

Each entry carries `computed_status`, the lifecycle state recomputed against the build
date — so a model whose shutdown has passed reads `retired` without anyone editing data.

## Badges

A shields.io endpoint per model, for READMEs that should go red when a model dies:

```
https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://modeldeprecations.dev/badge/openai/gpt-4-32k.json
```

## Calendar and changelog

- Subscribe to every shutdown date: https://modeldeprecations.dev/calendar.ics
- Changelog RSS: https://modeldeprecations.dev/changelog.xml

## JSON Schema

```bash
curl https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/schema.json
```

## Contribute

Data lives in YAML under `models/{provider}/{model}.yaml` in the
[GitHub repo](https://github.com/mnfst/modeldeprecations.dev). Every lifecycle date needs a source URL; CI rejects a
date without one. Open a PR.

## For agents

- Machine-readable overview: https://modeldeprecations.dev/llms.txt
- This guide plus every model inline: https://modeldeprecations.dev/llms-full.txt
- Any page also exists as Markdown: append `.md` to a model URL.
- In a browser, this site registers a **WebMCP** tool on `navigator.modelContext`:
  `check_model_deprecation`, `list_shutdowns`, `find_replacement`, and `get_usage_guide`.
- Parameters each model accepts are catalogued on the sibling site, https://modelparams.dev.