opendunes

Saba

by MistralReleased 17 February 2025

Mistral's 24B regional model for the Middle East and South Asia, trained on curated regional data to answer in Arabic and in Indian languages such as Tamil and Malayalam, with tool calls and file input

TakesTextFiles
GivesText
Open in chatCreate API keyCompare

What it costs

You pay for what each request uses. No subscription, no minimum.

≈ 0,17 DA per message3 000 DA buys about 18 000 messages

One message, the ordinary use

1 000 tokens sent× 66,57 DA per 1M0,067 DA
500 tokens back× 199,70 DA per 1M0,10 DA
Total≈ 0,17 DA

Every rate

Meter↑ you send↓ comes back
Text tokens66,57 DA199,70 DA
Cached tokens read6,66 DA

per 1M tokens

Answer a quick question≈ 0,060 DA
Reply to a customer email≈ 0,12 DA
Write a one-page draft≈ 0,20 DA
Translate a full page of text≈ 0,21 DA
Summarise a 5-page Arabic document≈ 0,35 DA
When you pay
After the answer, from your balance. Nothing is held.
Why it varies
A longer question or a longer answer costs more.
After each one
The exact charge shows on the request.
DepositDeposits from 50 DA, with Edahabia or CIB.

Where your request runs

One company runs this model. OpenDunes sends every request to it. DA per 1M tokens: ↑ what you send · ↓ what comes back.

Mistral · Zdr…
↑ Sent, per 1M
66,57 DA
↓ Back, per 1M
199,70 DA
Cache read
6,66 DA
Latency
…
Throughput
…
MistralEurope…
↑ Sent, per 1M
73,22 DA
↓ Back, per 1M
219,67 DA
Cache read
7,32 DA
Latency
…
Throughput
…
Provider↑ Sent↓ BackCache readLatencyThroughputUptime
Mistral · Zdr66,57 DA199,70 DA6,66 DA………
MistralEurope73,22 DA219,67 DA7,32 DA………

You pay the price of the provider that served your request. Prices read 15:19 · speed over the last 30 minutes · uptime over 3 days.

See it in action

Real requests, real replies. Try any of them yourself — one click, pre-filled.

Structured output
You send

Turn this customer email into JSON with intent, urgency and order_id.

customer-email.txt
It replied

{ "intent": "refund", "urgency": "high", "order_id": "OD-58421" }

Try in Chat Lab
Writing
You send

Two lines to welcome a shop in Oran.

It replied

Welcome to our new shop in Oran — fresh bread every morning, and coffee the way the city likes it. Come in, the first cup is on us.

Try in Chat Lab

Try your own request — same model, pre-selected.

Open Chat Lab

Call it in code

Swap the base URL and the key. Your OpenAI code runs unchanged.

POST /v1/chat/completions
Base URL
https://opendunes.com/v1
Model ID
mistralai/mistral-saba
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://opendunes.com/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["OPENDUNES_API_KEY"],
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistralai/mistral-saba",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Two lines to welcome a shop in Oran."}],
)

print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
pip install openaiFull reference for this route
Sign in to run it

Runs this request once on your balance.

Parameters you can send

Standard OpenAI fields, grouped by what they control. Anything not listed is accepted and ignored.

Shaping the reply

How long, how varied, where to stop.

max_tokenstemperaturetop_pstopseedfrequency_penaltypresence_penalty

Structured output

Get JSON you can parse instead of prose.

response_formatstructured_outputs

Tools

Let the model call your functions.

toolstool_choice

Questions about Saba

  • How much does Saba cost in dinars?

    About 0,17 DA per message. ↑ 66,57 DA · ↓ 199,70 DA per 1M tokens.

  • Is Saba free? Can I try it?

    No. You pay per use from your balance, with no subscription. Try it in Chat at the same price.

  • What is Saba best for?

    Mistral's 24B regional model for the Middle East and South Asia, trained on curated regional data to answer in Arabic and in Indian languages such as Tamil and Malayalam, with tool calls and file input.

  • How do I pay for Saba without an international card?

    Deposit dinars with your Edahabia or CIB card. Every model, Saba included, is paid from that balance. No foreign card, no conversion.

  • Does Saba work in Arabic, French or Darja?

    Mistral says it supports Arabic and many Indian-origin languages, Tamil and Malayalam among them. French and Darja are not named.

  • Can it read PDFs, images or a whole book?

    It reads text and PDFs. Up to 33K tokens in one request, about 32 pages. It writes up to 20 000 words at once.

  • Is Saba open source?

    No. Mistral has not published its weights.

  • Who makes Saba, and when was it released?

    Mistral. Released 17 February 2025. It knows the world up to 30 September 2024.

Other Mistral models, priced in dinars

See all Mistral models
Voxtral Small Transcribe 3Mistral · Oct 20, 2026

Mistral's flagship speech-to-text model that turns audio into transcripts with word timestamps and speaker labels, with context biasing for domain-specific vocabulary

1,46 DAper minute of audio
View model
Voxtral Mini TranscribeMistral · May 15, 2026

The Voxtral Mini derivative that only transcribes, taking audio from meetings, voice notes and podcasts and returning the text through a standard transcription request

1,10 DAper minute of audio
View model
Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3Mistral · Oct 20, 2026

Mistral's compact speech-to-text model that turns audio into transcripts with word timestamps and speaker labels, and can be steered with context biasing to catch domain terms

1,28 DAper minute of audio
View model
Mistral Embed 2312Mistral · Oct 31, 2025

Mistral AI's text embedding model from late 2023, whose 1024-dimension vectors capture how passages relate, for semantic search and RAG; Codestral Embed is the version for code

8 pages per call
≈0,033 DAper page
View model