Mistral: Mistral Small 3 API Pricing — $0.050 Input / $0.080 Output per 1M Tokens

Mistral: Mistral Small 3 by Mistral AI — $0.050 input / $0.080 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 32K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens
$0.050
Output / 1M tokens
$0.080
Provider
Mistral AI
Context window
32K tokens
Via
OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage Daily Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)$0.013$0.38
Small app (1K/day)$0.090$2.70
Mid-scale (10K/day)$1.40$42.00
Large scale (100K/day)$33.00$990.00
Model ID: mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.

About Mistral: Mistral Small 3

Mistral: Mistral Small 3 is an LLM developed by Mistral AI. Input costs $0.050 per million tokens and output costs $0.080 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 32K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

  • Input tokens: $0.050 per 1 million tokens
  • Output tokens: $0.080 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does Mistral: Mistral Small 3 Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

  • Daily cost: $0.0900
  • Monthly cost: $2.700

Accessing Mistral: Mistral Small 3 via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including Mistral: Mistral Small 3. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501.

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