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Mistral Medium 3 vs Mistral Small 3.1

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Mistral · 128k context | Mistral · 128k context

Pricing Comparison

Metric	Mistral Medium 3	Mistral Small 3.1
Input / 1M tokens	$0.4	$0.1
Output / 1M tokens	$2	$0.3
Cached input / 1M	—	—
Context window	128k	128k
Provider	Mistral	Mistral

Cost Calculator

Input tokens

Output tokens

Requests/day

💰 Mistral Small 3.1 saves $345.00/month (82% cheaper)

MMistral Medium 3

Per request$0.001400

Daily$14.00

Monthly$420.00

Yearly$5,110.00

MMistral Small 3.1CHEAPER

Per request$0.000250

Daily$2.50

Monthly$75.00

Yearly$912.50

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Choose Mistral Medium 3 when…

✓ Optimized for: Budget frontier tasks

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Choose Mistral Small 3.1 when…

✓ Cheaper for RAG & document retrieval (lower input cost)
✓ 75% cheaper per input token
✓ Cheaper for generation-heavy workloads (lower output cost)
✓ Optimized for: Simple high-volume tasks

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