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Mistral Small 3 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 27, 2026 at 08:09 AM

Overview

Mistral Small 3 was released on January 30, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.050 per million input tokens and $0.080 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 33K tokens. API access is available through Mistral AI.

Context Window
33K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.050
Output$0.080
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output241 tok/s
TTFT0.36s
median latency
Capabilities
Text only

Pricing Comparison

Compare Mistral Small 3 with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.050
$0.080
25.2
65.2
46.2
32,768
Try
$0.040
$0.150
13.7
66.9
42.8
128,000
Try
$0.040
$0.100
36.5
5.5
32,768
Try
$0.040
$0.050
31.0
6.8
8,192
Try
$0.045
$0.150
131,072
Try
$0.049
$0.049
11.0
46.4
22.1
131,072
Try
$0.050
$0.200
6.8
51.1
32.8
128,000
Try
$0.050
$0.200
36.0
57.9
39.9
262,144
Try
$0.050
$0.400
78.9
78.0
67.6
400,000
Try
$0.050
$0.200
16.3
63.3
41.0
131,072
Try
$0.050
$0.400
20.2
64.3
45.2
40,960
Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Mistral Small 3 is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

2
Providers
$0.050
Cheapest Input/M
$0.080
Cheapest Output/M
DeepInfra
Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Cache Read $/M
Cache Write $/M
Uptime
DeepInfra
DeepInfra
Best Price
$0.050
$0.080
-
-
100.0%
Together
Together
$0.100
$0.300
-
-
100.0%
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
12.7 (12th pct)
Coding
-
Math
4.3 (5th pct)
MMLU Pro
65.2 (23th pct)
GPQA
46.2 (24th pct)
LiveCodeBench
25.2 (18th pct)
AIME
8.0 (11th pct)
Aider
-
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

Mistral Small 3 costs $0.000050 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.000080 per 1,000 output tokens.
Mistral Small 3 is available from 2 provider(s). DeepInfra offers the best price.
We compare Mistral Small 3 with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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