Mistral Small
Compact Mistral for cost-sensitive applications.
Pricing
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Benchmark Scores
Strengths
- Very low cost
- Fast
Weaknesses
- 32K context limit
- No vision
Historical Intelligence
Pricing, context, and benchmark trends over time
Pricing History
Input and output price per million tokens over time
Context Window Growth
Context window tokens over time
Coding Score Progress
Benchmark score over time (0–100)
Reasoning Score Progress
Benchmark score over time (0–100)
Mistral Small Evolution
Combined pricing trend and benchmark performance
Mistral Small vs related models
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Intelligence Graph
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Mistral AI is a European AI lab offering both open-weight and commercial models with strong multilingual support and EU data residency options.
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