# labs-mistral-small-creative

Calls to the model labs-mistral-small-creative stopped working on April 30, 2026.

Mistral retired the model labs-mistral-small-creative on April 30, 2026. Any requests specifying model labs-mistral-small-creative fail since that date. The change took effect following an announcement on March 31, 2026.

## The error Mistral returns once labs-mistral-small-creative is gone

HTTP 400

```json
{"object":"error","message":"Invalid model: labs-mistral-small-creative","type":"invalid_model","param":null,"code":"1500"}
```

## What to use instead

Switch to Ministral 3 8B, which is recommended by Mistral as the replacement.

- API: Mistral (api.mistral.ai)
- Model: labs-mistral-small-creative
- Kind: Model retirement
- Announced: March 31, 2026
- Takes effect: April 30, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model labs-mistral-small-creative`
- Source: [Lifecycle page](https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Mistral's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/mistral/labs-mistral-small-creative/

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