Mistral AI · Released Jan 30, 2025Mistral Small 3
Efficient Mistral model for fast chat, extraction, and production assistants.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.05per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.08per 1M tokens
- Context
- 33K16K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.05per million tokens
- Output
- $0.08per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.058cheaper than 96% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.14 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $1.65 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $16.50 |
Median of 6 paid API providers on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Mistral Small 3 yet.
Scores from Epoch AI, run independently of Mistral AI.
The details
- Lab
- Mistral AI
- Released
- Jan 30, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Oct 31, 2023
- Context window
- 32,768 tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- Availability
- 6 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Mistral Small 3
How much does Mistral Small 3 cost?
Mistral Small 3 costs $0.05 input / $0.08 output per million tokens (median across 6 API providers). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.058 per million tokens, cheaper than 96% of the 445 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Mistral Small 3?
Mistral Small 3 accepts up to 32,768 tokens per request and can write up to 16,384 tokens in one response.
How good is Mistral Small 3?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Mistral Small 3 yet. Epoch AI benchmark results: GPQA Diamond 47.3%, OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 6.7%.
Is Mistral Small 3 open source?
Yes. Mistral AI publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Mistral Small 3 support?
Mistral Small 3 accepts text and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, does not support tool calling.
When was Mistral Small 3 released?
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3 on Jan 30, 2025. Its training data runs to Oct 31, 2023.
What are the best alternatives to Mistral Small 3?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Gemma 3 27B IT (Google, ECI 129.9, $0.11 / $0.30), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct (Meta, ECI 127.3, $0.59 / $0.753), GLM-4.7-Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu), $0.07 / $0.40) and Command R7B Arabic (Cohere, $0.037 / $0.15).