# Mistral Small 3 Review & Benchmarks (2026): Price, Context, Specs | Alher Tech

> Mistral Small 3 by Mistral AI: benchmarks, pricing, context window, strengths and use cases. Data from official benchmark sources.

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Last updated: April 22, 2026

## Specs

- **Vendor**: Mistral AI
- **Released**: January 30, 2025
- **Context window**: 128K tokens
- **Input**: $0.2 / M tokens
- **Output**: $0.6 / M tokens

## Benchmarks

- **mmlu**: 81.2
- **gpqa**: 45.3
- **humanEval**: 84.8
- **arenaElo**: 1266
- **sweBench**: 30
- **sweBenchPro**: 20
- **liveCodeBench**: 45
- **aiderPolyglot**: 42
- **terminalBench**: 16
- **mmluPro**: 62
- **hle**: 4
- **aime**: 45
- **math500**: 75

## Strengths

- Open weights under Apache 2.0
- Very fast on modest hardware
- EU-based vendor, GDPR-friendly by default

## Weaknesses

- Not frontier-class on reasoning
- No native multimodal
- Smaller context than the 256K+ crowd

## Best for

- On-premise European deployments
- Classification and routing at high volume
- Edge inference where latency matters

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