How does Mistral Small 3 rank among AI models?
Mistral Small 3 is a superseded version and is not on the current board as of 22 September 2026. Its archive position, where one exists, is shown on the page; the newer version carries the current rank.
Mistral AI·mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501
Mistral Small 3 is ModelCap archive rank #307 (Measured), from the ModelCap Index as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Mistral Small 3 listed OpenRouter input price is $0.05 per 1M tokens and listed output price is $0.08 per 1M tokens, from OpenRouter listed prices as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Mistral Small 3 has a published context limit of 33K tokens in the ModelCap catalogue as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Mistral Small 3 has 1 published OpenRouter serving endpoint, from OpenRouter as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Mistral Small 3 weight access is open weights, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Snapshot facts · download the public dataset · methodology
ModelCap Index · All-versions archive
17.9#307
Measured · 62% support · score interval 12.8–23.0
Evidence as of 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Superseded by Mistral Small 4. It no longer holds a current-board position; its all-versions archive rank is #307.
Input
$0.05
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.08
per 1M tokens
Context
33K
tokens
Providers
1
endpoint
Gateway spend
—
latest · Vercel share
Providers
Uptime measured over the last 30 minutesReported evaluation leads (1)
Not independent measurementStructured rows reported in this exact model repository at the pinned revision below. They are the publisher talking about itself: never measured evidence, never a score input on their own. They remain quarantined until dataset revision, harness, configuration and identity pass ModelCap’s independent admission review.
Other versions (1)
ModelCap Index · All-versions archive
Methodology17.9
Measured · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
All-versions archive
#307
- Public rank basis
- Measured (measured)
- Index support
- 61.7% · strong
- Index interval
- 12.8–23.0
- Rank posterior
- Not available
- Top 5 / Top 10 probability
- Not available / Not available
- Posterior as of
- Snapshot timestamp unavailable
- Evidence as of
- 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
- Identity binding
- Exact catalogue product · mistralai/mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501@9527884be6e5616bdd54de542f9ae13384489724 (not the evaluation revision)
- Index observations used
- 2
- Qualified Index evidence point
- 17.9
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only
BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.
- Observed capability
- 17.9
- Evidence status
- confirmed · 77% mass
- General preference
- 18.0
- Coding
- 17.2
- Agents & tools
- —
- Reasoning
- —
- Evidence breadth
- 92%
- Evidence coverage
- 62%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
- Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
- 13.8
- Liquidity (providers × uptime)
- 98.8
- Open reach (HF downloads)
- 85.3
- Surface (context / tools / modalities)
- 15.1
- Freshness
- 10.2
- · OpenRouter popularity #145
- · 1 live provider
- · HF 30d downloads 49278
- · Catalogue: context 32768
- · First seen 2025-01-30
These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.
BES evidence selected · measured input only
- Arena Overall18.0
- Arena Coding17.2
The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.
Deployment readiness
Metadata index82.5
strong · 98% metadata coverage
- Artifact reproducibility
- 100.0
- Access & legal clarity
- 100.0
- Deployability
- 74.0
- Evaluation provenance
- 51.4
Missing: evaluationProvenance.evaluation-dataset-revisions.
A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.
Market activity
Venue coverage- Market Gravity
- 45.6
- OpenRouter weekly popularity
- #145 of 322
Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.
Arena preference
- Status
- Ranked
- Source
- LMArena
- Official rank
- #294 of 402
- Rating
- 1274.3
- 95% confidence interval
- 1268–1280
- Votes
- 15K
- Source published at
- 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
- Category
- overall
- Identity match confidence
- 99%
Market Gravity breakdown
- Usage55%
- 13.8
- Liquidity25%
- 98.8
- Open reach15%
- 85.3
- Freshness5%
- 10.2
OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.
Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.
Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.
Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.
Specification
- Context window
- 33K tokens
- Max output
- 16K tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Tokenizer
- Mistral
- Cached input tokens
- Not offered
- First seen on OpenRouter
- 30 Jan 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10-31
Capabilities
- Not supported: Reasoning
- Not supported: Tool use
- Supported: Structured output
- Supported: Response format
- Not supported: Moderated
Weights & access
Open weights. Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI.
- Access
- Open weights
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Pinned revision
- 9527884be6e5
- Parameters
- 23.6B
- Architecture
- MistralForCausalLM
- Model type
- mistral
- Hugging Face downloads (30d)
- 49K
- Downloads (all time)
- 7.3M
- Likes
- 970
- Repository updated
- 28 Jul 2025, 17:26 UTC
- Base lineage
- mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Base-2501
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How much does Mistral Small 3 cost per 1M tokens?
Mistral Small 3 is listed at $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.08 per 1M output tokens as of 22 September 2026. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $0.14 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.
What is the context window of Mistral Small 3?
Mistral Small 3 has a published context window of 33K tokens (32,768) and a maximum output of 16K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; the providers table lists each endpoint's own limit.
Is Mistral Small 3 open-weight?
Open weights (apache-2.0). Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI. The repository is mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 on Hugging Face.
Which API providers serve Mistral Small 3?
One provider serves Mistral Small 3 through OpenRouter as of 22 September 2026: DeepInfra. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.
Which benchmarks has Mistral Small 3 been evaluated on?
Mistral Small 3 has published results on 3 public boards tracked by ModelCap as of 22 September 2026: Arena coding 1312 (#284 of 397), AA τ²-Bench Telecom 19.6% (#354 of 436) and AA Humanity's Last Exam 3.8% (#554 of 615). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark; the ModelCap Index combines them with published uncertainty.
When was Mistral Small 3 released?
Mistral Small 3 first appeared in the catalogue on 30 Jan 2025, with a published knowledge cutoff of 2023-10-31. It has since been superseded by Mistral Small 4. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.