> Mistral Small 3 is an open-weights AI model from Mistral, released 30 Jan 2025. Index score 106 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 172 of 229 ranked models. API price $0.050 in / $0.080 out per million tokens, 33K context.

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# Mistral Small 3

Mistral

Released 30 Jan 2025

Open

Date verified

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/mistral-small-3-vs-o1/) [Announcement](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-3/)

10694–118

Index score

#172 · provisional, limited data

1/ 8

Core tests taken

1 of 6 areas · plus 3 anchor tests

−30

Versus the frontier at release

best then: o1

Replaced by [Mistral Small 3.1](https://themodelindex.org/models/mistral-small-3-1/)

$0.050/ $0.080

Price per million tokens

input / output, list price

33K

Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

GPT-4 Turbo (Apr 2024) reached this score 10 months earlier.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Show 3 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

47%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

no evidence yet

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

The Model Index

independent tests, our method

#172

of 219 · 106

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#147

of 239 · 127.1

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Replaced by Mistral Small 3.1; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Where to use it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### From the lab

Le Chat

app · subscription

↗

Mistral API

API

↗

#### API providers · 1 · per million tokens, in / out

D

DeepInfra

$0.050 / $0.080 · fp8

cheapest

#### Run it yourself

🤗

Official weights

mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501

↗

Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

30 Jan 2025

Announcement

[mistral.ai ↗](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-3/)

Release entry

Mistral Small 3

Scored as

Mistral Small 3

Artificial Analysis index

–

Output speed

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Hugging Face

[mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 ↗](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501)

## Mistral releases · around this one

Ministral 3B

Closed

16 OCT 2024

index 90

Ministral 8B

Open

16 OCT 2024

index 90

Mistral Small 3

Open

30 JAN 2025

index 106

Mistral Medium 3

Closed

7 MAY 2025

index 120

Devstral

Open

21 MAY 2025

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/mistral-small-3/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01