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Mistral Small 3

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Mistral Small 3 is a 24B-parameter language model optimized for low-latency performance across common AI tasks. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it features both pre-trained and instruction-tuned versions designed...

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Budget

Knowledge cutoff

Oct 31, 2023(2.5 years ago)

API release

Jan 30, 2025(1.2 years ago)

Not enough benchmark coverage yet for an Intelligence Index — needs at least 3 results across 2 categories.

Overview

History

Mistral Small 3 became available via the Mistral AI API on 2025-01-30.

Training & availability

Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2023-10-31 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. Mistral AI has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.

Capabilities

Context window: 32K tokens.
Input modalities: text.

Recommended for: cheap.

Limitations

The knowledge cutoff is 30 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.
The context window (32K tokens) is modest by 2026 standards — unsuitable for processing long documents in a single request.
Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.

Pricing

Input: $0.0500 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.0800 per 1M tokens

Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.

Quick start

Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistral/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.

Input tokens / month5.0M

@ $0.05/1M

Output tokens / month2.0M

@ $0.08/1M

Input cost

$0.25

5.0M × $0.05/1M

Output cost

$0.16

2.0M × $0.08/1M

Total / month

$0.41

$4.92 / year

Providers & performance

1 provider

Multi-provider inference routes for this model — sorted by throughput. Latency is time-to-first-token; throughput is output tokens per second. Data from OpenRouter, measured over the last 30 minutes.

Provider	Throughput	Latency (TTFT)	Input $ / 1M	Output $ / 1M	Context	Quant	Supports
DeepInfra	70tok/s	286ms	$0.05	$0.08	33K	fp8	json

Popularity

Signals from open-source communities — not a quality measure, but useful for gauging adoption among developers.

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HuggingFace downloads

122.6K/ month

HuggingFace likes

950

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Not supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Budget pricing

Priced low — good for high-volume tasks. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.