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Mistral Small API pricing
As of October 16, 2026, Mistral Small costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens on the Mistral API. Cached input is $0.015 per million.
It is the 6th cheapest of 12 Mistral AI models tracked here, by blended price. The closest Budget-tier model from another provider is GPT-4o Mini (OpenAI) at $0.15 / $0.60, the same blended price. Same list price as GPT-4o Mini. First listed in the LiteLLM price data on December 14, 2023. Its price has been cut 2 times and raised 0 times since.
Input / 1M tokens$0.15
Output / 1M tokens$0.60
Context window262K
Max output262K
Every published rate
| Rate | Per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input (standard) | $0.15 |
| Output (standard) | $0.60 |
| Cached input (read) | $0.015 |
What it costs in practice
| Task | Tokens | Per request | Per 1,000 requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatbot reply | 1,000 in / 500 out | $0.00045 | $0.45 |
| Summarize a long document | 20,000 in / 1,000 out | $0.0036 | $3.60 |
| Coding agent step | 50,000 in / 2,000 out | $0.0087 | $8.70 |
Standard rates, no caching or batch discount. Compare your own numbers across all models →
Price history
| Date | Model | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-20 | Mistral Small | Context window: 131K → 262K (+100%) source |
| 2026-08-20 | Mistral Small | Name now points to a newer version: $0.06 / $0.18 → $0.15 / $0.6 source |
| 2026-08-11 | Mistral Small | New model listed: $0.06 in / $0.18 out source |
| 2026-03-02 | Mistral Small | Removed from listings source |
| 2025-03-10 | Mistral Small | Output price: $3.00 → $0.30 (-90%) source |
| 2025-03-10 | Mistral Small | Input price: $1.00 → $0.10 (-90%) source |
| 2024-05-31 | Mistral Small | Output price: $6.00 → $3.00 (-50%) source |
| 2024-05-31 | Mistral Small | Input price: $2.00 → $1.00 (-50%) source |
| 2024-03-23 | Mistral Small | Context window: – → 32K source |
| 2024-03-19 | Mistral Small | Name now points to a newer version: $0.66 / $1.97 → $2 / $6 source |
| 2023-12-14 | Mistral Small | New model listed: $0.66 in / $1.97 out source |
Dates are when each change first appeared in the LiteLLM price data, usually within days of the provider's announcement.
Details
| Provider | Mistral |
| Price tier | Budget |
| Features | Vision, Reasoning, Tool use |
| API model names | mistral-small-2603, mistral-small-latest |
| Official pricing | docs.mistral.ai |
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|---|---|---|
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|---|---|---|
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| Mistral Large 4 | $0.68 | $2.09 |
| Mistral Large 3 | $0.50 | $1.50 |
| Codestral | $0.30 | $0.90 |
| Open Mistral Nemo | $0.30 | $0.30 |
| Mistral Tiny | $0.25 | $0.25 |
| Ministral 3 14B | $0.20 | $0.20 |
| Voxtral Small | $0.10 | $0.40 |
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| Ministral 3 3B | $0.10 | $0.10 |