Mistral Small 3 Free AI Chatbot

About Mistral Small 3 AI model

Mistral Small 3 is Mistral AI's fast open AI model for everyday writing, emails and clean JSON, released on 30 January 2025. Chat with Mistral Small 3 free on AIFreeForever and use it with skills like @Excel and @Resume.

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Made byMistral AI

Model IDmistral-small-2501

ReleasedJanuary 30, 2025

Size24B parameters

LicenceApache 2.0

Price of Mistral Small 3 on AIFreeForeverFree

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What Mistral Small 3 is best at

Speed

Mistral measures 150 tokens a second, more than three times faster than Llama 3.3 70B on the same hardware.

Clean, structured

It supports function calling and JSON output, so it's good at turning messy text into tidy lists and data.

Everyday quality

Scores 66.3% on MMLU-Pro, a broad knowledge test, against 66.6% for Llama 3.3 70B, a model nearly three times its size, in Mistral's table.

Coding

Scores 84.8% on HumanEval, a test of writing small working programs.

How to use Mistral Small 3 for free on AIFreeForever

1
Open the chat
and choose Mistral Small 3.
2
Type your request,
or add @Excel or @Resume for a file.
3
Paste your text
Mistral Small 3 reads text only.
4
Read the answer
and ask follow-up questions.

Tip: Keep long inputs under about 20,000 words to leave room for the answer. Its context window is 32K tokens, so very long documents need a model like Llama 4 Scout.

Try it for free

Why choose AIFreeForever's free Mistral Small 3?

No upgrade required

Use Mistral Small 3 free, without installing it.

Fast replies

150 tokens a second, according to Mistral.

Clean JSON

Turn contacts, orders and notes into structured data.

Everyday writing

Emails, replies and short documents in a clear tone.

Many languages

Mistral lists English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and more.

Open model

Apache 2.0 allows free business use.

Chat with Mistral Small 3 on AIFreeForever

Type your request below and Mistral Small 3 answers in the same chat. Use it for emails, customer replies, data extraction and short documents.

This model is subject to availability, based on our budget. For long-term use, we advise you to pay for an upgrade with the model provider.

Tip: Mistral Small 3 is best suited for speed, clean, structured and everyday quality.

What you can create with Mistral Small 3

A brass desk bell beside a small stack of envelopes

Plain chat

How much does Mistral Small 3 cost?

Mistral Small 3 is free to download under Apache 2.0. OpenRouter charges $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens, and it's free on AIFreeForever.

WherePriceCached inputContext

Download (Hugging Face, Ollama, Kaggle)Free (Apache 2.0)—32K

Mistral La Plateforme (mistral-small-2501)Mistral's API pricing—32K

OpenRouter$0.05 in / $0.08 out per 1M tokens—33K

AIFreeForever's Free AIFree—16K tokens a message

Can you use Mistral Small 3 for free?

Yes. You can use Mistral Small 3 free in two ways:

On AIFreeForever: pick it in the chat and start typing.
On your own computer: download it from Hugging Face or run "mistral-small" in Ollama. A compressed version runs on one RTX 4090 or a 32GB MacBook.

Chat with Mistral Small 3

Mistral Small 3 benchmark results

Mistral Small 3 scores close to Llama 3.3 70B on broad knowledge (66.3% vs 66.6% on MMLU-Pro) while running more than three times faster.

BenchmarkWhat it testsMistral Small 3GPT-4o-miniLlama 3.3 70B

MMLU-ProBroad knowledge66.3%61.7%66.6%

GPQA (main)Graduate-level science45.3%37.7%53.1%

HumanEvalCoding84.8%89.0%85.4%

MATHMaths70.6%76.1%74.3%

IFEvalFollowing instructions82.9%85.0%88.4%

Arena HardChat quality (judged)87.3%89.7%84.0%

This benchmark was extracted from Mistral AI.

GPT-4o-mini scored higher than Mistral Small 3 on four tests in the same table. On HumanEval, GPT-4o-mini got 89.0% and Mistral Small 3 got 84.8%. On MATH, GPT-4o-mini got 76.1% and Mistral Small 3 got 70.6%. Mistral used GPT-4o to judge Arena Hard.

Mistral Small 3 vs other top models

Mistral Small 3 is built for speed (150 tokens a second, according to Mistral), but its 32K-token context window is the smallest below.

ModelContextImage inputStrength

Mistral Small 332KNoFast replies

Granite 4.2 8B128KNoStep-by-step reasoning

Command R7B128KNoAnswers from your documents

Llama 4 Scout10M (Meta)YesCharts and scanned pages

Pick Mistral Small 3 for quick emails, replies and JSON. Pick Granite 4.2 8B for step-by-step maths and documents longer than 32K tokens.

Mistral Small 3 vs other Mistral Small versions

Mistral Small 3 has the model ID mistral-small-2501 and was released in January 2025. Other Mistral Small versions have their own pages.

How does Mistral Small 3 compare to Llama 4 Scout?

Mistral Small 3 is a 24B model built for speed and reads text only. Llama 4 Scout reads images and has a 10M-token context window from Meta.

How Mistral Small 3 works

Mistral calls Small 3 "latency-optimized": a 24B model tuned to answer fast. Mistral says it trained the model without reinforcement learning or synthetic data, and recommends a low temperature (about 0.15) for steady answers, in Mistral's model card.

Best Mistral Small 3 prompts

Free Mistral Small 3 Reminder Email Prompt

“Write a short, friendly reminder to a client about an invoice that's 10 days late. Under 80 words, with a clear next step.” Try the prompt→

Free Mistral Small 3 Email Rewrite Prompt

“Rewrite this email to sound calm and professional. Keep all the facts and make it 30% shorter.” Try the prompt→

Download the free Mistral Small 3 prompt guide (PDF) →

Limitations of Mistral Small 3 on AIFreeForever

Mistral Small 3 has four limits on AIFreeForever, which connects to it through its API and adds our skills and file editors:

Mistral Small 3 reads text only, not images.
Its 32K-token window limits how much text you can paste at once.
Mistral's Le Chat app and agents aren't part of AIFreeForever.
You can't run Python, start agents that work on their own, or run regression analysis here.

Tip: Test Mistral Small 3 free here first. For business use, try Mistral's own platform or run it yourself.

You can test Mistral Small 3 free on AIFreeForever in these ways:

TestHow to do it here

SpeedAsk for a 200-word answer; compare the speed with Granite 4.2 8B.

Clean JSONAsk for strict JSON; paste it into a JSON checker.

Follow rulesGive 3 formatting rules; check each one.

Compare modelsRun the same email task on Command R7B.

These limitations only cover what you can do with Mistral Small 3 on AIFreeForever, not the limits of the model on Mistral AI’s own platform. All trademarks belong to their owners, and the model’s full features are only available when you use it officially through Mistral AI.

Mistral Small 3 FAQs

Is Mistral Small 3 free?

Yes. It's free on AIFreeForever and free to download under Apache 2.0.

Who made Mistral Small 3?

Mistral AI made Mistral Small 3.

When was Mistral Small 3 released?

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3 on 30 January 2025.

How large is the Mistral Small 3 context window?

Mistral Small 3 takes up to 32K tokens, about 24,000 words.

Can Mistral Small 3 read images?

No. Mistral Small 3 reads and writes text only.

Is Mistral Small 3 open source?

Yes. Mistral releases it under the Apache 2.0 licence.

Can I run Mistral Small 3 on my own computer?

Yes. A compressed version runs on one RTX 4090 graphics card or a MacBook with 32GB of memory.

Is Mistral Small 3 the latest Mistral Small?

Not necessarily. Mistral Small 3 (mistral-small-2501) dates from January 2025. Check Mistral's site for its current versions.

Are Mistral Small 3 answers 100% correct?

No. It can make mistakes, so check important facts and figures.