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Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Mistral Small

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Mistral Medium 3.1 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Supports vision

Mistral Small wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Faster response time
Price Advantage
Mistral Small
Benchmark Advantage
Mistral Medium 3.1
Context Window
Mistral Medium 3.1
Speed
Mistral Small

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureMistral Medium 3.1Mistral Small
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyMistral Medium 3.1Mistral Small
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorMistral AIMistral AI
ReleasedAug 2025Unknown

Mistral Medium 3.1 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Mistral Small Modalities

Input
Output

Frequently Asked Questions

Mistral Small has cheaper input pricing at $0.10/M tokens. Mistral Small has cheaper output pricing at $0.30/M tokens.
Mistral Medium 3.1 has a 131,072 token context window, while Mistral Small has a 32,000 token context window.
Mistral Medium 3.1 supports vision. Mistral Small does not support vision.