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Mistral Small 3

by MistralReleased 30 January 2025

Mistral Small 3 (2501) is a text model for fast, everyday chat and drafting, released under an open Apache 2.0 licence so you can also run it yourself. It reads about 33 pages at once, answers in text only and cannot use tools here. Mistral reports 81% accuracy on a widely used knowledge test.

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What it costs

You pay for what each request uses. No subscription, no minimum.

≈ 0,030 DA per message3 000 DA buys about 100 000 messages

One message, the ordinary use

1 000 tokens sent× 16,64 DA per 1M0,017 DA
500 tokens back× 26,63 DA per 1M0,013 DA
Total≈ 0,030 DA

Every rate

Meter↑ you send↓ comes back
Text tokens16,64 DA26,63 DA

per 1M tokens

Sort a support email into a category≈ 0,0089 DA
Answer a quick question≈ 0,0092 DA
Reply to a customer email≈ 0,021 DA
Write a one-page draft≈ 0,029 DA
Translate a full page of text≈ 0,033 DA
When you pay
After the answer, from your balance. Nothing is held.
Why it varies
A longer question or a longer answer costs more.
After each one
The exact charge shows on the request.
DepositDeposits from 50 DA, with Edahabia or CIB.

Where your request runs

One company runs this model. OpenDunes sends every request to it. DA per 1M tokens: ↑ what you send · ↓ what comes back.

DeepInfraUnited States…
↑ Sent, per 1M
16,64 DA
↓ Back, per 1M
26,63 DA
Latency
…
Throughput
…
Provider↑ Sent↓ BackLatencyThroughputUptime
DeepInfraUnited States16,64 DA26,63 DA………

You pay the price of the provider that served your request. Prices read 15:20 · speed over the last 30 minutes · uptime over 3 days.

See it in action

Real requests, real replies. Try any of them yourself — one click, pre-filled.

Structured output
You send

Turn this customer email into JSON with intent, urgency and order_id.

customer-email.txt
It replied

{ "intent": "refund", "urgency": "high", "order_id": "OD-58421" }

Try in Chat Lab
Writing
You send

Two lines to welcome a shop in Oran.

It replied

Welcome to our new shop in Oran — fresh bread every morning, and coffee the way the city likes it. Come in, the first cup is on us.

Try in Chat Lab

Try your own request — same model, pre-selected.

Open Chat Lab

Call it in code

Swap the base URL and the key. Your OpenAI code runs unchanged.

POST /v1/chat/completions
Base URL
https://opendunes.com/v1
Model ID
mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://opendunes.com/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["OPENDUNES_API_KEY"],
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Two lines to welcome a shop in Oran."}],
)

print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
pip install openaiFull reference for this route
Sign in to run it

Runs this request once on your balance.

Parameters you can send

Standard OpenAI fields, grouped by what they control. Anything not listed is accepted and ignored.

Shaping the reply

How long, how varied, where to stop.

max_tokenstemperaturetop_ptop_kmin_pstopseedfrequency_penaltypresence_penaltyrepetition_penaltylogit_bias

Structured output

Get JSON you can parse instead of prose.

response_formatstructured_outputs

Questions about Mistral Small 3

  • How much does Mistral Small 3 cost in dinars?

    About 0,030 DA per message. ↑ 16,64 DA · ↓ 26,63 DA per 1M tokens.

  • Is Mistral Small 3 free? Can I try it?

    No. You pay per use from your balance, with no subscription. Try it in Chat at the same price.

  • What is Mistral Small 3 best for?

    Mistral Small 3 (2501) is a text model for fast, everyday chat and drafting, released under an open Apache 2.0 licence so you can also run it yourself. It reads about 33 pages at once, answers in text only and cannot use tools here. Mistral reports 81% accuracy on a widely used knowledge test.

  • Mistral Small 3 or Mistral Small 4?

    Mistral Small 4 costs 0,12 DA more for the same message.

  • How do I pay for Mistral Small 3 without an international card?

    Deposit dinars with your Edahabia or CIB card. Every model, Mistral Small 3 included, is paid from that balance. No foreign card, no conversion.

  • Does Mistral Small 3 work in Arabic, French or Darja?

    Mistral's model card tags English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Korean. Arabic and Darja are not named.

  • Can it read PDFs, images or a whole book?

    It reads text. Up to 33K tokens in one request, about 32 pages. It writes up to 12 000 words at once.

  • Is Mistral Small 3 open source?

    Yes, its weights are public. Open weights on Hugging Face

  • Who makes Mistral Small 3, and when was it released?

    Mistral. Released 30 January 2025. It knows the world up to 31 October 2023.

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