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Mistral: Mistral Small 3

mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501:free

Model weights

Mistral Small 3 is a 24B-parameter language model optimized for low-latency performance across common AI tasks. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it features both pre-trained and instruction-tuned versions designed for efficient local deployment.

The model achieves 81% accuracy on the MMLU benchmark and performs competitively with larger models like Llama 3.3 70B and Qwen 32B, while operating at three times the speed on equivalent hardware. Read the blog post about the model here.(opens in new tab)

Modalities

Price

Free

Context

33K

Released

Jan 30, 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Oct 2023

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Mistral Small 3 is a 24B-parameter language model optimized for low-latency performance across common AI tasks. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it features both pre-trained and instruction-tuned versions designed for efficient local deployment.

Yes. The pricing shown on this page for Mistral Small 3 is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens. Free endpoints are rate limited — see the rate limit docs.

Mistral Small 3 has a 32,768 token context window.

Mistral Medium 3.5, Mistral Small 4, Devstral 2 2512 and 15 more are other text models from Mistral AI.

Mistral Small 3 was released on January 30, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is October 31, 2023.