Mistral Nemo vs Mistral Small 3

Performance benchmarks + pricing comparison — updated April 2026

Mistral Nemo

Mistral

Compact 12B open-weight model co-developed with NVIDIA. Excellent coding performance at minimal cost.

Input	$0.150/M
Output	$0.150/M
Context	128K tokens
Best For	Self-hosted deployments, cost-sensitive coding, edge deployments
Benchmark	48/100

Mistral

Mistral's efficient small model. Great performance for its size at very competitive pricing.

Input	$0.100/M
Output	$0.300/M
Context	32K tokens
Best For	Chat, summarization, general text tasks

Estimated cost per project with 30% cache hit rate. Actual costs may vary based on usage patterns.

Scenario	Mistral Nemo	Mistral Small 3	Savings
Small Script (1K lines)	<$0.01	$0.01	Mistral Nemo saves <$0.01 (22%)
Medium Feature (10K lines)	$0.08	$0.10	Mistral Nemo saves $0.01 (13%)
Large Project (50K lines)	$0.41	$0.47	Mistral Nemo saves $0.06 (13%)
Code Review (5K lines)	$0.03	$0.02	Mistral Small 3 saves <$0.01 (17%)

Mistral Small 3 wins on both price and performance — $0.100/M input with a benchmark score of N/A/100.

For most developers, this is the clear choice between these two models.

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