Mistral Small 3: API pricing, providers and specs
Mistral Small 3 is a text model by Mistral. 4 providers serve it, from $0.08 to $0.085 /1M; the lowest price is at FastRouter.
A newer version is out: Mistral Small 4 · released Mar 16, 2026
How Mistral Small 3 compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.08 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 95% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 33K-token context window is larger than 6% of them (median 262K), about 50 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #98 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 4 providers serve it; 60% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
Mistral Small 3 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Deep Infra | $0.05/1M | From$0.08/1M | — | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.05/1M | From$0.08/1M | — | 33K |
 FastRouter | $0.05/1M | $0.08/1M | — | 28K |
| AI/ML API | $0.053/1M | $0.085/1M | — | — |
- FastRouter$0.08
- Deep InfraFrom$0.08
- OpenRouterFrom$0.08
- AI/ML API$0.085
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Mistral
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 33K≈ 50 pages of text
- Max output
- 16K
- Capabilities
- JSON
- Released
- Jan 28, 2025
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 24B
- Arena score
- 1234Text
1 uncensored versions · See them
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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The lowest price for Mistral Small 3 is $0.08 /1M, at FastRouter.
FastRouter, at $0.08 /1M. 4 providers serve Mistral Small 3; the table above lists every one with its price.
Mistral Small 3 reads up to 33K tokens per request and writes up to 16K.
Yes. Mistral Small 3's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 24B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
4 API providers serve Mistral Small 3. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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