Mistral no longer sells a reasoning model: every Magistral now sits in the retirement table

In June 2025 Mistral AI launched Magistral, its own family of models that write out a chain of reasoning before answering. Fifteen months later the family is gone from the vendor's API. All six members — Magistral Small 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2, and Magistral Medium 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 — appear in the retirement table of the lab's own documentation. The last two were switched off on 31 July 2026. The replacements named in that table are not another reasoning model. Users of Magistral Small are pointed to Mistral Small 4, users of Magistral Medium to Mistral Medium 3.5 — both ordinary mainline models. Reasoning did not disappear from the lab's line-up; it stopped being a product of its own. Since December 2025 the Ministral 3 family has shipped in three flavours of every size — base, instruct and reasoning — so a customer who wants deliberation picks a variant of the standard model instead of a different model. That is a pattern worth naming, because Mistral is not alone in it. A separate reasoning line made sense while the technique was new and expensive enough to be sold at a premium. Once it became a training stage that any model can be put through, keeping a parallel family meant maintaining two catalogues of the same sizes. What makes the case unusual is that switching a model off in the API did not switch it off in the world. Magistral Small 1.0, retired from the vendor's service on 30 November 2025, was downloaded roughly 80,700 times from Hugging Face in the thirty days to early September 2026 — more than six times the traffic of the final version 1.2, which is technically the better model. Devstral Small 2 makes the same point harder: withdrawn from the API on 31 March 2026, it pulled about 229,700 downloads in that same window, twelve times more than the 123-billion-parameter flagship it was released alongside. The counters cover thirty days only, and older releases have an advantage — tutorials, quantised forks and pipelines that were written once and still point at them. But the direction is clear enough. For a lab that publishes weights under Apache 2.0, retirement is a statement about what the company is willing to host, not about what people are running. That is why our profiles of Magistral Small 1.2 and Devstral Small 2, added today, are marked historical and at the same time describe how to run them — the service ended, the software did not.