Efficient Mistral model for fast chat, extraction, and production assistants
Mistral: Mistral Small 3 is offered by 2 providers on this page. Its reference price is $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.08 per 1M output tokens.
Artificial Analysis rates it 6.7 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.058 per 1M, that is roughly 117 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 139 tokens per second, with 0.9s to the first token.
The context window is 32,768 tokens, with an output limit of 16,384 tokens. It supports structured output. 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.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| 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 |
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.