Mistral Small 3
AI model by Mistral. Real-time pricing and benchmark data.
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Editorial Analysis
Profile. Mistral Small 3 is a budget-tier option from Mistral at $0.30/M output tokens. Despite the low price, it scores competitively on measurable benchmarks — making it a candidate for high-volume production workloads where unit cost dominates.
Latency. On latency, Mistral Small 3 reports 142 tok/s output speed and 800ms time-to-first-token. Output speed is in the normal range — most chat and completion applications will be token-bound, not streaming-bound.
Cost model. For a workload of 1M input tokens + 100K output tokens, Mistral Small 3 costs $0.13 per million input-equivalent requests. Multiply by your monthly request volume to project the bill, and compare against the speed/correctness profile above to decide if the trade-off is worth it for your workload.
Editorial summary generated from public pricing and benchmark data (Artificial Analysis API). All numbers are sourced — see the Artificial Analysis methodology for benchmark definitions. Last refreshed 2026-08-24.
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