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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Saba, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
About this model
Saba is an open-weight AI model by Mistral AI. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Saba?
Saba is an AI language model from Mistral AI. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 6.4 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Saba free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Saba and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.2 per million input tokens and $0.6 per million output tokens.
What is Saba good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 42.4%, MMLU-Pro 61.1%, Humanity's Last Exam 4.1%, SciCode 24.1%, MATH-500 67.7%, AIME 13%.
Can I self-host Saba?
Yes. Saba has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.
Open-source alternatives
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