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Mistral Small 3OPEN
Mistral Small 3 (Mistral AI): live API pricing, context window and the best open-source alternatives, tracked daily by olud.ai.
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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Mistral Small 3, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
For the same budget, Mistral Small 3 delivers 7.5 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
About this model
Mistral Small 3 is an open-weight AI model by Mistral AI. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Mistral Small 3?
Mistral Small 3 is an AI language model from Mistral AI. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 6.9 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Mistral Small 3 free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Mistral Small 3 and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens.
What is Mistral Small 3 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 46.2%, MMLU-Pro 65.2%, Humanity's Last Exam 4.1%, Long Context Reasoning 0%, LiveCodeBench 25.2%, SciCode 23.6%, MATH-500 71.5%, AIME 8%, AIME 2025 4.3%, IFBench 26.4%, τ²-Bench 19.6%. It is particularly used for mathematical reasoning.
Can I self-host Mistral Small 3?
Yes. Mistral Small 3 has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.