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labs-mistral-small-creative model retirement
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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 you get
What Mistral answers a call to labs-mistral-small-creative once the model is gone, as recorded from real responses:
{"object":"error","message":"Invalid model: labs-mistral-small-creative","type":"invalid_model","param":null,"code":"1500"}What to use instead of labs-mistral-small-creative
Switch to Ministral 3 8B, which is recommended by Mistral as the replacement.
Facts
- API
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labs-mistral-small-creative- Kind
- Model retirement
- Announced
- March 31, 2026
- Takes effect
- April 30, 2026
- Calls after that day
- Fail
- Source
- Lifecycle page
- Last updated
- Verified
- , against Mistral's own pages
Questions
When does labs-mistral-small-creative shut down?
Calls to the model labs-mistral-small-creative stopped working on April 30, 2026.
What happens to calls after April 30, 2026?
They have failed since April 30, 2026.
What error does labs-mistral-small-creative return once it is shut down?
Mistral answers HTTP 400: "Invalid model: labs-mistral-small-creative". Send another model to fix it.
How do I find the calls this hits in my code?
Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.
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