Mistral Small 3
Fast and lightMistral · Released January 2025 · Knowledge cutoff October 2023
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...
It belongs to Mistral's catalog, which spans Medium (capability), Small and Ministral (efficiency) and dedicated code models, all with European data-residency roots.
Facts and pricing
- Provider
- Mistral
- Context window
- 33K tokens
- Input price
- 0.55 credits / 1M tokens ($0.050 raw)
- Output price
- 0.88 credits / 1M tokens ($0.080 raw)
- Vision (image input)
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Extended reasoning
- No
Credits are what Zeplik bills: 1 credit = $0.10, computed from the raw provider rate with a 1.10x margin. Raw prices shown per 1M tokens.
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What Mistral Small 3 is best for
- High-volume everyday tasks where speed and cost matter: summaries, drafts, quick questions
Example prompts
Prompts that suit a fast and light model like Mistral Small 3:
- Summarize this article in five bullet points
- Rewrite this email to be shorter and friendlier
- Give me ten name ideas for a hiking newsletter
- Translate this paragraph to Spanish and keep the tone
Mistral family
| Model | Context | Input cr/M | Output cr/M | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | 262K | 16.5 | 82.5 | April 2026 |
| Mistral Small 4 | 262K | 1.7 | 6.6 | March 2026 |
| Devstral 2 2512 | 262K | 4.4 | 22.0 | December 2025 |
| Ministral 3 14B 2512 | 262K | 2.2 | 2.2 | December 2025 |
| Ministral 3 8B 2512 | 262K | 1.7 | 1.7 | December 2025 |
| Ministral 3 3B 2512 | 131K | 1.1 | 1.1 | December 2025 |
| Mistral Large 3 2512 | 262K | 5.5 | 16.5 | December 2025 |
| Voxtral Small 24B 2507 | 32K | 1.1 | 3.3 | October 2025 |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | 131K | 4.4 | 22.0 | August 2025 |
| Codestral 2508 | 256K | 3.3 | 9.9 | August 2025 |
Frequently asked questions
- What is Mistral Small 3?
- Mistral Small 3 is an AI model by Mistral. 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...
- How much does Mistral Small 3 cost on Zeplik?
- Input tokens cost 0.55 credits per million and output tokens 0.88 credits per million (1 credit = $0.10; the raw provider rates are $0.050 and $0.080 per million). New accounts start with free credits.
- How long can a conversation with Mistral Small 3 be?
- Mistral Small 3 has a 33K-token context window (32,768 tokens), which covers the conversation plus any documents you attach.
- Does Mistral Small 3 support images and tools?
- Mistral Small 3 is text-only and does not support tool calling.
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