Mistral Small 3: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Mistral Small 3 from Mistral AI is a recent or sparsely tested model with 1 benchmark result on record; it has not been measured on enough benchmarks shared with other models to receive an aggregate rank. This page lists every score we have, based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-14.

Organisation: Mistral AI
Type: Open-weight / local model
Open weights: Yes
Released: 2025-01-30 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price: $0.050 in / $0.080 out per million tokens (via openrouter, observed 2026-10-14T23:47Z)
Aggregate rank: Not ranked yet (too few shared benchmarks)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Mistral Small 3 is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

Its cheapest listed input price, $0.050 per million tokens, is lower than that of 90% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Mistral Small 3 benchmark results

Mistral Small 3 benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Epoch ECI	127	#105 of 204	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-14

About Mistral Small 3

Mistral Small 3 is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from Mistral AI. It was released on 2025-01-30, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.050 per million input tokens and $0.080 per million output tokens, through openrouter. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Mistral Small 3 stands

Mistral Small 3 has 1 result so far and shares too few benchmarks with other models to get an aggregate rank. The rank will appear on its own once more scores are published.

Mistral Small 3, benchmark by benchmark

Mistral Small 3 lands below the middle on Epoch ECI: 127, #105 of 204, with 51% of the field scoring higher. Qwen 3.8 Max leads at 156; the closest result above is Claude 3.5 Haiku at 127. It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Mistral Small 3 is 0 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-14.

Release history

The Mistral AI model released before it was mistral-small-2501 on 2025-01-25, which scores 44.8. The next one was mistral-small-3-2501 on 2025-01-30, at 45.0.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.