Mistral · open weights
Shieldstral
A smaller policy-adaptive safety model designed to sit around a generation system rather than replace it.
- Organisation
- Mistral
- Weights published
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Size
- 3B classifier
- Modalities
- textimage
- Comparison catalog
- Not in the priced catalog yet
Practical fit
Useful for moderation, routing, and safety layers where a compact model can reduce latency and cost.
Deployment note
Evaluate false positives and policy fit on your own content; a classifier is not a complete safety programme.
Where to go next
- Shieldstral has no priced API row in the comparison catalog yet, so there are no side-by-side figures for it. Other Mistral models that are catalogued: Mistral Medium 3.5, Mistral Small 4, Mistral Large 3.
- Size the hardware to run it locally
- Local and open-source AI guide
- Primary source: Mistral announcement