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Mistral Small 3 Pricing

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Mistral Small 3 from Mistral costs $0.050 per 1 million input tokens and $0.080 per 1 million output tokens as of June 2026 (live OpenRouter data). The model supports a 32,768-token context window (approximately 24,576 words) with a 16K-token maximum output. A typical 1,000-token request costs $0.0000 in input charges; a 10,000-token request costs $0.0005.

Mistral Small 3 pricing and capability summary
Input price$0.050 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.080 / 1M tokens
Output / input ratio1.6×
Context window32,768 tokens (~24,576 words)
Maximum output16,384 tokens
Cost per 1K tokens (input)$0.0000
TierFast
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Mistral Small 3 is a 24B-parameter language model optimized for low-latency performance across common AI tasks. Released under the Apache 2.

Live pricing from OpenRouter

Input Price

$0.050

per 1 million tokens

Output Price

$0.080

per 1 million tokens

Context Window

33K tokens

max 16K output

Cost Examples

Request TypeTokensInput CostOutput Cost
1,000 word article1,333$0.0000666$0.000032
10-page document (2,500 words)3,333$0.000167$0.00008
1,000 lines of code5,000$0.00025$0.00012
100K token document100,000$0.005$0.0024

Output cost estimated at 30% of input token count. Use the calculator for exact figures.

Strengths

  • Extremely cheap at $0.050/1M input tokens
  • Low latency for high-throughput workloads
  • Cost-effective at scale

Limitations

  • Less capable than flagship models on complex reasoning
  • Smaller 33K-token context limits long-document use

Best Use Cases

High-volume classification
Text extraction and summarization
Simple chat and Q&A
Cost-sensitive pipelines

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