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Saba: price, performance and context

Proprietary Saba by Mistral costs $0.20 per 1M input and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 32.8K tokens in one request (≈ 98 pages of text) and scores 6.5 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 197 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, including in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:49 UTC · mistralai/mistral-saba

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$0.20
Output / 1M tokens
$0.60
Context window
32.8K tokens
Max. output
26.2K tokens
Performance index
6.5 points · rank 197 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.35 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Sep 2024
In the catalog since
Feb 17, 2025
Capabilities
Tool Calling, Files

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0028,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0034,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.00110,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0025,900
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go–does not fit the context

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Open alternatives

ModelLicencePerformanceYour cost / month
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomiOpen46.3$0.653
GLM 5.3Z.aiOpen44.8$1.79
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