Mistral Small 3 pricing and routing profile
Mistral Small 3 from Mistral AI lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens, with a 32,768-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Structured output
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.0308 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $0.132 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $0.44 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Mistral Small 3. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Mistral Small 3 that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.0 Flash | $0.021 / $0.063 | 49% |
| Ling 3.0 Flash VL | $0.021 / $0.0616 | 50% |
| Mistral Nemo | $0.019 / $0.03 | 62% |
Questions
How much does Mistral Small 3 cost?
Mistral Small 3 lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $0.132 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Mistral Small 3?
32,768 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Mistral Small 3?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Mistral Small 3 on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.