--- title: "Mistral: Mistral Small 3 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/models/mistralai__mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501/ description: "Mistral: Mistral Small 3: $0.050/M in, $0.080/M out. Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements." --- # Mistral: Mistral Small 3 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai > Mistral: Mistral Small 3: $0.050/M in, $0.080/M out. Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements. [Check base rates for this workload](/check/mistralai__mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501/) [Cheaper alternatives](/alternatives/mistralai__mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501/) [Family](/families/mistral/) [Compare models](https://undominated.ai/compare/?models=mistralai%2Fmistral-small-24b-instruct-2501) Comparison context Choose up to three standard models in Compare. Requirements and prompt length apply in Compare. This page keeps its stated price basis and workload controls. MODEL PROOF # Mistral Small 3 Mistral · 30 Jan 2025 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$0.058** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out [gpt-oss-20b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-20b/) · Δ score 54.1 points · 37% lower measured price · $0.036 / 1M tokens Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) 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](#billing-details) 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller DeepInfra deepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 32,768 tokens Output limit 16,384 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.050 | Output $0.080 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.99% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1233.6 default | | --- | --- | 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](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | 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. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Mistral: Mistral Small 3. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [gpt-oss-20b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-20b/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Llama 3.1 70B Instruct](/models/meta-llama__llama-3.1-70b-instruct/) - Same vendor [Mistral Large 2407](/models/mistralai__mistral-large-2407/) - Mistral models [Mistral](/providers/mistral/) - Where this model appears [significance](/significance/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Gemma 2 27B](/models/google__gemma-2-27b-it/) - Same vendor [Mistral Medium 3.5](/models/mistralai__mistral-medium-3-5/) - Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct](/models/qwen__qwen-2.5-coder-32b-instruct/) - Same vendor [Codestral 2508](/models/mistralai__codestral-2508/) - Where this model appears [subscription vs API](/plans/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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