Mistral Small 3
· verified October 13, 2026
legacy paid api open-weights local
Provider
Statuslegacy
AA Intelligence Index6.7 (official, read October 13, 2026)
Released2025-01-30
Context window33K
ModalitiesText
API price $/1M (in / out)$0.05 / $0.08 (OpenRouter)
Speedn/a
AccessAPI $0.05/$0.08 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · open weights · listed January 30, 2025
In one line
Mistral Small 3 by Mistral AI, measured by Artificial Analysis at 6.7 on the Intelligence Index. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 13, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “Mistral Small 3 is a 24B-parameter language model optimized for low-latency performance across common AI tasks.”
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