Mistral Small 3
Summary
Mistral Small 3 is an open-weight language model from Mistral AI, released on 30 Jan 2025. It accepts text and generates text, with a 33K-token context window and up to 16K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens (OpenRouter), across 1 provider we track.
Mistral Small 3 is a 24B-parameter language model optimized for low-latency performance across common AI tasks. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it features both pre-trained and instruction-tuned versions designed...
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | Mistral AI |
|---|---|
| Release date | 30 Jan 2025 [OpenRouter] |
| Status | Generally available |
| Weights | Open weights [Hugging Face] |
| License | apache-2.0 [Hugging Face] |
| Parameters | 23.6B [Hugging Face] |
| Context window | 33K (32,768 tokens) [OpenRouter] |
| Max output | 16K tokens [OpenRouter] |
| Knowledge cutoff | 31 Oct 2023 [OpenRouter] |
| Input | Text [OpenRouter] |
| Output | Text [OpenRouter] |
| Reasoning mode | No [OpenRouter] |
| Tool calling | No [OpenRouter] |
| Structured output | Yes [OpenRouter] |
| Hugging Face | mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 [Hugging Face] |
Mistral Small 3 API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 | $0.05 | $0.08 | – | 33K | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Mistral Small 3?
Mistral Small 3 has a context window of 32,768 tokens (33K) and can generate up to 16,384 tokens in a single response, according to OpenRouter.
How much does the Mistral Small 3 API cost?
Mistral Small 3 is listed from $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens (OpenRouter). Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is Mistral Small 3 open source?
Mistral Small 3 is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 under the apache-2.0 license. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was Mistral Small 3 released?
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3 on 30 Jan 2025, according to OpenRouter.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.