Efficient Mistral model for fast chat, extraction, and production assistants
Mistral: Mistral Small 3 is offered by 3 providers on this page. Its reference price is $0.116 per 1M input tokens and $0.346 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Kilo Gateway at $0.05 / $0.08 per 1M, about 2.3× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
The context window is 32,768 tokens, with an output limit of 8,192 tokens. It supports structured output. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2023-10-31.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.05 | $0.08 | — | — | 32,768 | 16,384 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.05 | $0.08 | — | — | 32,768 | 16,384 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.12 | $0.35 | — | — | 32,768 | 8,192 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.