Implementation:Mistralai Client python Models And Files Management

Knowledge Sources	Mistral Client Python Mistral AI Docs
Domains	Fine_Tuning, Resource_Management
Last Updated	2026-02-15 14:00 GMT

Overview

Concrete tool for listing/retrieving models and deleting files provided by the Models and Files SDK resources.

Description

Models.list() returns all available models. Models.retrieve(model_id=...) returns detailed information about a specific model. Files.delete(file_id=...) permanently deletes an uploaded file. All methods have async variants.

Usage

Access via client.models.list(), client.models.retrieve(), and client.files.delete().

Code Reference

Source Location

Repository: client-python
File: src/mistralai/client/models_.py (L15-249), src/mistralai/client/files.py (L604-770)

Signature

class Models:
    def list(self) -> ModelList: ...
    async def list_async(self) -> ModelList: ...
    def retrieve(self, *, model_id: str) -> ResponseRetrieveModelV1ModelsModelIDGet: ...
    async def retrieve_async(self, *, model_id: str) -> ResponseRetrieveModelV1ModelsModelIDGet: ...

class Files:
    def delete(self, *, file_id: str) -> DeleteFileOut: ...
    async def delete_async(self, *, file_id: str) -> DeleteFileOut: ...

Import

from mistralai import Mistral
# Access via: client.models.list(), client.models.retrieve(), client.files.delete()

I/O Contract

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
model_id (retrieve)	str	Yes	Model ID to retrieve
file_id (delete)	str	Yes	File ID to delete

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
ModelList (list)	ModelList	All available models
Model details (retrieve)	Response	Detailed model info
DeleteFileOut (delete)	DeleteFileOut	Confirmation with id and deleted flag

Usage Examples

List and Clean Up

from mistralai import Mistral

client = Mistral(api_key="your-key")

# List all models
models = client.models.list()
for model in models.data:
    print(f"{model.id}: {model.object}")

# Retrieve a specific model
model = client.models.retrieve(model_id="ft:open-mistral-7b:my-model:abc123")
print(f"Model: {model.id}")

# Delete training file
result = client.files.delete(file_id="file-abc123")
print(f"Deleted: {result.deleted}")

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