mistral-medium-2505 — Retired — shutdown 8/31/2026
For mistral-medium-2505, provider is Mistral AI; lifecycle status is Retired; deprecation announced is 5/22/2026; shutdown / retirement date is 8/31/2026; recommended replacement is Mistral Medium 3.5, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.
- Provider
- Mistral AI our reading
- Model ID / API name
- mistral-medium-2505 verified
- Human-readable model name
- Mistral Medium 3 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Retired
- Deprecation announced
- 5/22/2026 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 8/31/2026 verified
- Recommended replacement
- Mistral Medium 3.5 verified
- Release date
- 7 May 2025 per ibm.com
- Platform / deployment scope
- watsonx.ai multitenant deployment (Dallas, Frankfurt, Tokyo data centers) per ibm.com
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
<https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-25-05> Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | <https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-5-26-04> Mistral Medium 3.5 |
— docs.mistral.ai, retrieved 2026-09-02
Sources disagree
More than one authority states this, and they do not state the same thing. Both are reproduced with the source each came from — deciding between them is yours, not ours.
Provider
docs.mistral.ai says provider is Mistral AI, as of 2026-09-02.
<https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-25-05> Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | <https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-5-26-04> Mistral Medium 3.5 |
https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/
ibm.com says provider is IBM watsonx.ai, as of 2026-09-16.
mistral-medium-2505 (Dallas, Frankfurt, Tokyo data centers) mistralai/mistral-medium-2505 | 7 May 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | mistral-medium-2508 on Deploy on demand |
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle
Human-readable model name
docs.mistral.ai says human-readable model name is Mistral Medium 3, as of 2026-09-02.
<https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-25-05> Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | <https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-5-26-04> Mistral Medium 3.5 |
https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/
ibm.com says human-readable model name is mistral-medium-2505, as of 2026-09-16.
mistral-medium-2505 (Dallas, Frankfurt, Tokyo data centers) mistralai/mistral-medium-2505 | 7 May 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | mistral-medium-2508 on Deploy on demand |
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle
Lifecycle status
docs.mistral.ai says lifecycle status is Retired, as of 2026-09-02.
<https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-25-05> Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | <https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-5-26-04> Mistral Medium 3.5 |
https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/
ibm.com says lifecycle status is Deprecated, as of 2026-09-16.
mistral-medium-2505 (Dallas, Frankfurt, Tokyo data centers) mistralai/mistral-medium-2505 | 7 May 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | mistral-medium-2508 on Deploy on demand |
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle
Deprecation announced
docs.mistral.ai says deprecation announced is 5/22/2026, as of 2026-09-02.
<https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-25-05> Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | <https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-5-26-04> Mistral Medium 3.5 |
https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/
ibm.com says deprecation announced is 8 May 2026, as of 2026-09-16.
mistral-medium-2505 (Dallas, Frankfurt, Tokyo data centers) mistralai/mistral-medium-2505 | 7 May 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | mistral-medium-2508 on Deploy on demand |
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle
Shutdown / retirement date
docs.mistral.ai says shutdown / retirement date is 8/31/2026, as of 2026-09-02.
<https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-25-05> Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | <https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-5-26-04> Mistral Medium 3.5 |
https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/
ibm.com says shutdown / retirement date is 12 January 2027, as of 2026-09-16.
mistral-medium-2505 (Dallas, Frankfurt, Tokyo data centers) mistralai/mistral-medium-2505 | 7 May 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | mistral-medium-2508 on Deploy on demand |
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle
Recommended replacement
docs.mistral.ai says recommended replacement is Mistral Medium 3.5, as of 2026-09-02.
<https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-25-05> Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | <https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-5-26-04> Mistral Medium 3.5 |
https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/
ibm.com says recommended replacement is mistral-medium-2508 on Deploy on demand, as of 2026-09-16.
mistral-medium-2505 (Dallas, Frankfurt, Tokyo data centers) mistralai/mistral-medium-2505 | 7 May 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | mistral-medium-2508 on Deploy on demand |
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle
Sources
- docs.mistral.aihttps://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/
- ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle