# Mistral Small 3

> 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.

Source page: https://www.aimodel.directory/models/mistral-small-3
Last verified: 4 Oct 2026

## Specifications

- **Developer:** Mistral AI
- **Release date:** 30 Jan 2025 (source: OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501)
- **Status:** Generally available
- **Weights:** Open weights (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501)
- **License:** apache-2.0 (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501)
- **Parameters:** 23.6B (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501)
- **Context window:** 33K (32,768 tokens) (source: OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501)
- **Max output:** 16K tokens (source: OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501)
- **Knowledge cutoff:** 31 Oct 2023 (source: OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501)
- **Input:** Text (source: OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501)
- **Output:** Text (source: OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501)
- **Reasoning mode:** No (source: OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501)
- **Tool calling:** No (source: OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501)
- **Structured output:** Yes (source: OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501)
- **Hugging Face:** mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501)

## API pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.05 | $0.08 | – | 33K |

## FAQ

### 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.

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