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Mistral Small 3.1 24B Pricing

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Input / 1M tokens

$0.351

Output / 1M tokens

$0.555

Context window

128k tokens

≈ 171 pages of text

Max output

128k tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0006

1,000 requests / month$0.6432/mo 10,000 requests / month$6.43/mo 100,000 requests / month$64.32/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Mistral Small 3.1 24B preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

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What it excels at

Handles multilingual text and basic vision tasks efficiently. Open weights support cost-effective self-hosting for moderate-volume workloads.

The business tradeoff

Reasoning depth trails larger frontier models on complex multi-step problems. Performance depends on user-managed hosting infrastructure and optimization.

Cheaper from Mistral AI

Ministral 3 14B 2512Mistral AI$0.0003/ typical request Mistral Small 4Mistral AI$0.0004/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI$0.0027/ typical request Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic$0.0096/ typical request Llama 4 MaverickMeta$0.0006/ typical request

Head-to-head

Mistral Small 3.1 24B vs GPT-5.4 Mini →Mistral Small 3.1 24B vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 →Mistral Small 3.1 24B vs Llama 4 Maverick →

Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.