Overview
Mistral Small 3 delivers strong performance at a fraction of the cost of flagship models. Optimized for high-volume tasks, it's ideal for chatbots, classification, and content generation at scale.
Context Window
32K tokens
Knowledge Cutoff
December 2025
Pricing
$0.5-1 / 1M tokens
Latency
~50ms
✅Strengths
- ✓10x cheaper than Large 2
- ✓Fast response times for real-time apps
- ✓Strong multilingual support
- ✓Good for classification and extraction
- ✓GDPR-compliant, EU-based
⚠️Weaknesses
- ✗Less capable at complex reasoning
- ✗Smaller context window (32K)
- ✗Closed weights - API only
- ✗May struggle with specialized domains
Best Use Cases
💬 Chatbots
Customer support
📊 Classification
Sentiment, topics
📝 Content
Social media, emails
🔍 Extraction
Entity, data parsing
🌐 Translation
Multilingual apps
📧 Email
Drafting, sorting
Benchmarks
MMLU78.5%
HumanEval75.2%
GSM8K82.1%