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Mistral Small 3

Name: Mistral Small 3
Brand: Mistral
Price: 0.050000 USD

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Mistral's 24B small model: open-weights, fast, and strong on instruction following for its size.

Mistral Small 3 is a efficient AI model from Mistral. It costs $0.050 per million input tokens and $0.080 per million output tokens (blended $0.059/M), with a 32,768-token context window.

Profile inherited from upstream Mistral Small 3.2 ↗ — this is a hosted variant of the same open-weights model.

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INPUT

$0.050/M

per million input tokens

OUTPUT

$0.080/M

per million output tokens

BLENDED 70/30

$0.059/M

unchanged since 3 May

default reference rate · how it is calculated →

CONTEXT

32,768

tokens

What it is good at

Open weights (Apache 2.0)
Single-GPU friendly
128K context

Typical use cases

Self-hosted production chat
Cheap European-hosted inference

Benchmarks

vs. best public score

Scores inherited from Mistral Small 3.2 — this is a hosted variant of the same open-weights model, so the underlying benchmark scores are identical.

MMLU71%

Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.

HumanEval68%

Python function synthesis from docstrings.

LMArena Elo1175 Elo

Crowd-sourced head-to-head preference Elo rating.

Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources, treat as directional rather than authoritative.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Mistral Small 3 cost?

Mistral Small 3 costs $0.050 per million input tokens and $0.080 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.059 per million tokens.

What is Mistral Small 3's context window?

Mistral Small 3 supports up to 32,768 tokens of context in a single request.

What is Mistral Small 3 best for?

Mistral Small 3 is well suited to Open weights (Apache 2.0), Single-GPU friendly and 128K context.

Who makes Mistral Small 3?

Mistral Small 3 is developed and served by Mistral.

Terms used on this page

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Token Input tokens Output tokens Price per million tokens Context window Prompt caching Batch API Blended cost