MODEL PROOF
Mistral Small 3
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
gpt-oss-20b · Δ score 54.1 points · 37% lower measured price · $0.036 / 1M tokens
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,233.6 ± 5.88 · 14,681 votes
- Context window
- 32.77K
- Maximum output
- 16.38K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.050 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $0.080 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from DeepInfra: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (fp8), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.050/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.080/M |
| Cached input | Unknown/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfradeepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.050 | $0.080 | fp8 | 99.99% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1233.6default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 32K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 16K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2023-10-31 |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
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...
Questions this page answers
What does Mistral Small 3 cost?
$0.050/M in, $0.080/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Mistral Small 3 have an independent quality score?
Mistral Small 3 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Mistral Small 3?
gpt-oss-20b has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Mistral Small 3?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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