Magistral Small 2506

🚀 Model Card for Magistral-Small-2506

Building upon Mistral Small 3.1 (2503), this model comes with added reasoning capabilities. It undergoes SFT from Magistral Medium traces and RL on top, making it a small yet efficient reasoning model with 24B parameters.

Magistral Small can be deployed locally. Once quantized, it can fit within a single RTX 4090 or a 32GB RAM MacBook.

Learn more about Magistral in our blog post.

The model was presented in the paper Magistral.

Model Information

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✨ Features

• Reasoning: Capable of long chains of reasoning traces before providing an answer.
• Multilingual: Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, and Farsi.
• Apache 2.0 License: Open license allowing usage and modification for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
• Context Window: A 128k context window, but performance might degrade past 40k. Hence we recommend setting the maximum model length to 40k.

📊 Benchmark Results

💻 Usage Examples

Sampling parameters

Please make sure to use:

• top_p: 0.95
• temperature: 0.7
• max_tokens: 40960

Basic Chat Template

We highly recommend including the default system prompt used during RL for the best results. You can edit and customise it if needed for your specific use case.

<s>[SYSTEM_PROMPT]system_prompt

A user will ask you to solve a task. You should first draft your thinking process (inner monologue) until you have derived the final answer. Afterwards, write a self-contained summary of your thoughts (i.e. your summary should be succinct but contain all the critical steps you needed to reach the conclusion). You should use Markdown to format your response. Write both your thoughts and summary in the same language as the task posed by the user. NEVER use \boxed{} in your response.

Your thinking process must follow the template below:
<think>
Your thoughts or/and draft, like working through an exercise on scratch paper. Be as casual and as long as you want until you are confident to generate a correct answer.
</think>

Here, provide a concise summary that reflects your reasoning and presents a clear final answer to the user. Don't mention that this is a summary.

Problem:

[/SYSTEM_PROMPT][INST]user_message[/INST]<think>
reasoning_traces
</think>
assistant_response</s>[INST]user_message[/INST]

system_prompt, user_message and assistant_response are placeholders.

We invite you to choose, depending on your use case and requirements, between keeping reasoning traces during multi-turn interactions or keeping only the final assistant response.

Please make sure to use mistral-common as the source of truth

Inference

• vllm (recommended): See below

In addition, the community has prepared quantized versions of the model that can be used with the following frameworks (alphabetically sorted):

• llama.cpp: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2506_gguf
• lmstudio (llama.cpp, MLX): https://lmstudio.ai/models/mistralai/magistral-small
• ollama: https://ollama.com/library/magistral
• unsloth (llama.cpp): https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Magistral-Small-2506-GGUF

Training

Fine-tuning is possible with (alphabetically sorted):

• axolotl: https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/magistral
• unsloth: https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/magistral

Other

Also you can use Magistral with:

• kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/models/mistral-ai/magistral-small-2506

vLLM (recommended)

We recommend using this model with the vLLM library to implement production-ready inference pipelines.

Installation

Make sure you install the latest vLLM code:

pip install -U vllm \
    --pre \
    --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/nightly

Doing so should automatically install mistral_common >= 1.6.0.

To check:

python -c "import mistral_common; print(mistral_common.__version__)"

You can also make use of a ready-to-go docker image or on the docker hub.

Serving the Model

Serve the model as follows:

vllm serve mistralai/Magistral-Small-2506 --tokenizer_mode mistral --config_format mistral --load_format mistral --tool-call-parser mistral --enable-auto-tool-choice --tensor-parallel-size 2

Pinging the Model

from openai import OpenAI
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

# Modify OpenAI's API key and API base to use vLLM's API server.
openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://localhost:8000/v1"

TEMP = 0.7
TOP_P = 0.95
MAX_TOK = 40_960

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=openai_api_key,
    base_url=openai_api_base,
)

models = client.models.list()
model = models.data[0].id

def load_system_prompt(repo_id: str, filename: str) -> str:
    file_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=filename)
    with open(file_path, "r") as file:
        system_prompt = file.read()
    return system_prompt

SYSTEM_PROMPT = load_system_prompt(model, "SYSTEM_PROMPT.txt")

query = "Write 4 sentences, each with at least 8 words. Now make absolutely sure that every sentence has exactly one word less than the previous sentence."
# or try out other queries
# query = "Exactly how many days ago did the French Revolution start? Today is June 4th, 2025."
# query = "Think about 5 random numbers. Verify if you can combine them with addition, multiplication, subtraction or division to 133"
# query = "If it takes 30 minutes to dry 12 T-shirts in the sun, how long does it take to dry 33 T-shirts?"

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},
    {"role": "user", "content": query}
]
stream = client.chat.completions.create(
  model=model,
  messages=messages,
  stream=True,
  temperature=TEMP,
  top_p=TOP_P,
  max_tokens=MAX_TOK,
)

print("client: Start streaming chat completions...")
printed_content = False

for chunk in stream:
  content = None
  # Check the content is content
  if hasattr(chunk.choices[0].delta, "content"):
    content = chunk.choices[0].delta.content

  if content is not None:
    if not printed_content:
        printed_content = True
        print("\ncontent:", end="", flush=True)
    # Extract and print the content
    print(content, end="", flush=True)

# content:<think>
# Alright, I need to write 4 sentences where each one has at least 8 words and each subsequent sentence has one fewer word than the previous one.
# ...
# Final boxed answer (the four sentences):

# \[
# \boxed{
# \begin{aligned}
# &\text{1. The quick brown fox jumps over lazy dog and yells hello.} \\
# &\text{2. I saw the cat on the stair with my hat.} \\
# &\text{3. The man in the moon came down quickly today.} \\
# &\text{4. A cat sat on the mat today patiently.}
# \end{aligned}
# }
# \]

📄 License

This model is released under the apache-2.0 license.