# Mistral Small 4

api.venice.ai deprecated the model Mistral Small 4 without giving a shutdown date yet.

Mistral Small 4 has been deprecated without an announced shutdown date. This deprecation affects API requests using model Mistral Small 4. After the retirement takes effect, calls targeting this model fail.

## What to use instead

Use Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct instead.

- API: api.venice.ai (api.venice.ai)
- Model: Mistral Small 4
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: no date given yet
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model Mistral Small 4`
- Source: [Changelog](https://venice.ai/changelog)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against api.venice.ai's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/api-venice-ai/mistral-small-4/

## api.venice.ai's words

> Mistral Small 4→replaced by Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent