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Mistral Small 3
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by Mistral
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RANKED #137 OF 232 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #227 OF 6,554 · VIBE SCORE 5.7 · 39 VOICES
Mistral Medium 3 is a high-performance enterprise-grade language model designed to deliver frontier-level capabilities at significantly reduced operational cost. It balances state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal performance with 8× lowe
HAPPY9.9
9 mentions
SAD5.1
2 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 10 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Mistral Small 3 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
24B parameters, a Q4 file is about 14.5 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$450 NEWIQ3 or tight Q4_K_S, ~18 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$700 USEDQ4_K_M to Q5_K_M, ~45 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (128GB)
128 GB UNIFIED RAM
~$3400 USEDFP16 or Q8_0, ~30 tok/s, full 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN MISTRAL SMALL 3?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Mistral Small 3 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB | FULL POWERApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (128GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~28 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ | ~17 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~83 S | ~33 S | ~50 S |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~7.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~3 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.4 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~23 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~14 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~14 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Mistral Small 3 yet to call it. We found 39 posts but people did not say much either way.
20 POSTS · 19 COMMENTS · DEV FORUMS · LEMMY · REDDIT · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
Grok 4.6
Qwen3.8 27B
Gemini 3.7 Flash> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-12-02 · 583 UPVOTESIntroducing Mistral 3
Introducing Mistral 3
- REDDIT · 2025-01-30 · 126 UPVOTESMistral releases Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized, open-spurce model under the Apache 2.0 licence
Mistral releases Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized, open-spurce model under the Apache 2.0 licence
- LEMMY · 2025-07-06 · 76 UPVOTESA bookmarklet to quickly debloat Duck.ai
A bookmarklet to quickly debloat Duck.ai
- REDDIT · 2025-01-31 · 52 UPVOTESMistral Small 3 brings open-source AI to the masses — smaller, faster and cheaper
Mistral Small 3 brings open-source AI to the masses — smaller, faster and cheaper
- LEMMY · 2025-07-23 · 36 UPVOTESIntroducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential Proton Blog
Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential Proton Blog
- LEMMY · 2025-07-23 · 27 UPVOTESProton Launches Private AI Chatbox Called Lumo
Proton Launches Private AI Chatbox Called Lumo
- LEMMY · 2025-01-30 · 25 UPVOTESMistral Small 3
Mistral Small 3
- LEMMY · 2025-01-30 · 22 UPVOTESMistral Small 3 (24B) released
Mistral Small 3 (24B) released
- LEMMY · 2025-08-03 · 20 UPVOTESPermanently Deleted
Permanently Deleted
- REDDIT · 2025-02-10 · 19 UPVOTESLLM Confabulation (Hallucination) Benchmark: DeepSeek R1, o1, o3-mini (medium reasoning effort), DeepSeek-V3, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Exp…
LLM Confabulation (Hallucination) Benchmark: DeepSeek R1, o1, o3-mini (medium reasoning effort), DeepSeek-V3, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Exp 01-21, Qwen 2.5 Max, Microsoft Phi-4, Amazon Nova Pro, Mistral Small 3, MiniMax-Text-01 added
- REDDIT · 2025-02-11 · 16 UPVOTESMy app uses Mistral Small 3 more than any other app on OpenRouter!
My app uses Mistral Small 3 more than any other app on OpenRouter!
- REDDIT · 2026-08-31 · 16 UPVOTESThe Chrono Trigger plot challenge - Crono awakens in his modest bedroom of 2095...
The Chrono Trigger plot challenge - Crono awakens in his modest bedroom of 2095...