Artificial Analysis
#104of 115
Score 6.7. Best run: mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501.
Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.
Mistral
Mistral Small 3 benchmarks, ranks and price
Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Mistral Small 3, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.
Read Oct 5, 2026
#118of 126
on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 22 across 2 leaderboards.
Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.
By leaderboard
Where each leaderboard places Mistral Small 3
LiveBench
Not measured by LiveBench.
Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.
LMArena
#107of 115
Score 1274. Best run: mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501.
Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.
Berkeley BFCL
Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.
Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.
Price and context
$0.057
OpenRouter: $0.050 in, $0.080 out Context window 33K tokens.
Nearby
The models either side of Mistral Small 3
- #115granite-3.1-8b-instruct23
- #116GPT-423
- #117Llama 3.1 70B Instruct22
- #118Mistral Small 322
- #119amazon-nova-micro-v1.022
- #120Phi 421
- #121Llama 3.1 8B Instruct20
Questions about Mistral Small 3
How good is Mistral Small 3?
Mistral Small 3 ranks #118 of 126 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 22 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is Mistral Small 3 better than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct?
Not on the consensus: Llama 3.1 70B Instruct scores 22 to Mistral Small 3's 22. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Mistral Small 3 better than amazon-nova-micro-v1.0?
On the consensus, yes: 22 to 22.
How much does Mistral Small 3 cost?
$0.050 per million input tokens and $0.080 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.057 per million.
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