How much does Mistral Small 3 cost per million tokens?

Mistral Small 3 costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Mistral Small 3?

Mistral Small 3 accepts up to 32,768 tokens of context and returns up to 16,384 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Mistral Small 3?

About $0.09, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Mistral Small 3?

In the same price range, Qwen Qwen3.7 Flash ($0.03 / $0.13), DeepSeek DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 ($0.042 / $0.084), OpenAI gpt-oss-20b ($0.018 / $0.09) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Mistral API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Mistral sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

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Mistral Small 3 API pricing

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...

Small and cheap (under $1 per 1M)

Input: $0.05; per 1M tokens
Output: $0.08; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 33K; 16K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Mistral's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released January 30, 2025. Model id mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501.

What Mistral Small 3 costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.09

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$0.44

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.17

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Mistral Small 3 price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Mistral Small 3 price by host

One host serves this model through OpenRouter.

DeepInfra$0.05 in · $0.08 out · 33K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h

Where to buy Mistral credits for less

Mistral Small 3 costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Mistral Small 3 cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.05 in / $0.08 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$3.30/ month(quotes below are for $5.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Mistral Small 3

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash	$0.03	$0.13	$0.055	1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423	$0.042	$0.084	$0.052	1.0M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b	$0.018	$0.09	$0.036	131K
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL	$0.021	$0.062	$0.031	262K
Nex AGI: Nex-N2.5-Mini	$0.025	$0.1	$0.044	262K
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash	$0.021	$0.063	$0.032	262K

Other Mistral models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Saba	$0.2	$0.6	$0.3	33K
Mistral Small 3.1 24B	$0.351	$0.555	$0.402	128K
Mistral Large 2407	$2	$6	$3	131K
Mistral Medium 3	$0.4	$2	$0.8	131K
Mistral Small 3.2 24B	$0.094	$0.25	$0.133	256K
Codestral 2508	$0.3	$0.9	$0.45	256K

All Mistral API prices