Mistral AI model product
Shieldstral is a 3B open-weight multimodal safety classifier from Mistral.
Updated Aug 17, 2026. Default version: Shieldstral 1.0 (3B)
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Benchmark scores for Shieldstral 1.0 (3B).
Benchmark | Score | Rank | Participants | Percentile | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| BenchmarkXSTest | Score94.6% | Rank03 | Participants4 | Percentile33.3% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
The default version does not have a matching Arena result yet.
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Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for Shieldstral 1.0 (3B). Runtime does not affect the capability score.
No provider-specific speed or latency record is linked to the default version yet.
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Technical details for the model's default version.
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
Version | Released | LLMBoard | Parameters | Context | Max output | Open weights | License |
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| VersionShieldstral 1.0 (3B) | Released | LLMBoard0.0 | Parameters3B | ContextN/A | Max outputN/A | Open weightsNo | LicenseApache 2.0 |
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Key information about Shieldstral 1.0 and its available data.
Shieldstral is a 3B open-weight multimodal safety classifier from Mistral. It frames content moderation as policy-adaptive yes/no question answering: plain-language policies are supplied at inference time, and the model returns a calibrated safety score from a single forward pass for text, image, or text+image content.
0. 25857); per-bench WildGuard/HarmBench/ToxicChat/BeaverTails/Aegis/VLGuard ids are not in the catalog.
Data as of 2026-08-17.
Common questions about Shieldstral 1.0.
Shieldstral 1.0's default version was released on Aug 4, 2026.
No official standard PAYG price is currently available for Shieldstral 1.0.
Shieldstral 1.0 was created by Mistral AI.
A context window is not available for the default version.
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.
No provider offering is currently linked to the default version.
Nearby ranked alternatives include Phi 3.5 vision, IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny, Llama 3.2 11B.