Shieldstral

Mistral AI

A 3B open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that matches models up to 7x its size on text safety and sets a new state of the art on multimodal moderation.

Specs

Model

Family
Shieldstral
Variant
1.0 3B
Parameters
3B
Weights
Open
License
Apache-2.0

Limits

Context
262,144 tokens

Modalities

Input
Text Image
Output
Text

Capabilities

Reasoning
No
Tool calling
No
Attachments
Yes

Dates

Announced
4 Aug 2026
Released
4 Aug 2026
Mistral AI

Introducing Shieldstral.

Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.

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