mistral-medium-2505 — Retired or Deprecated — shutdown 8/31/2026 or 12 January 2027 — sources disagree
For mistral-medium-2505, provider is Mistral AI; lifecycle status is disputed: Retired per docs.mistral.ai, Deprecated per ibm.com; deprecation announced is disputed: 5/22/2026 per docs.mistral.ai, 8 May 2026 per ibm.com; shutdown / retirement date is disputed: 8/31/2026 per docs.mistral.ai, 12 January 2027 per ibm.com; recommended replacement is disputed: Mistral Medium 3.5 per docs.mistral.ai, mistral-medium-2508 on Deploy on demand per ibm.com, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02; source re-checked 2026-11-11.
- Provider
- Mistral AI our reading
- IBM watsonx.ai per ibm.com
- Model ID / API name
- mistral-medium-2505 verified
- Human-readable model name
- Mistral Medium 3 sources disagree
- Lifecycle status
- Retired sources disagree
- Deprecation announced
- 5/22/2026 sources disagree
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 8/31/2026 sources disagree
- Recommended replacement
- Mistral Medium 3.5 sources disagree
- 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
Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | 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.
Human-readable model name
docs.mistral.ai says human-readable model name is Mistral Medium 3, as of 2026-09-02.
Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | 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.
Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | 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.
Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | 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.
Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | 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.
Mistral Medium 3 ↗ | 25.05 | mistral-medium-2505 | 5/22/2026 8/31/2026 | 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
Where the other sources' values come from
These values were taken from a passage elsewhere on the other source's page, not from the row quoted with it above.
Shutdown / retirement date
Foundation model name API model ID | Availability date | Deprecation date | Withdrawal date | Recommended alternative model | mistral-large-2512 (Dallas data center) mistralai/mistral-large-2512 | 12 December 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | mistral-large-2512 on Deploy on demand | 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 |
— ibm.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
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