Efficient Mistral model for fast chat, extraction, and production assistants
Mistral Small (latest) is offered by 5 providers on this page. Its official list price is $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens.
Artificial Analysis rates it 5.8 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.263 per 1M, that is roughly 22 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on.
The context window is 256,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 256,000 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text and Image. 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 2025-06.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway mistral/mistral-small | Cloud | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.015 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 4,000 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | — | — | 256,000 | 256,000 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.015 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 256,000 | |
| Tempr Gateway | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | — | — | 256,000 | 256,000 | |
| MistralOfficial | First-party | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.015 | — | 256,000 | 256,000 |
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.
1 / 5 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.