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Mistral Small 3 Release

model card965 words·4 min read·Aug 20, 2026·Source
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Summary
965-word document condensed to 71 words. Mistral AI · Aug 20, 2026
TL;DR

Mistral Small 3 is competitive with larger models such as Llama 3.3 70B or Qwen 32B, and is an excellent open replacement for opaque proprietary models like GPT4o-mini. Mistral Small 3 is on par with Llama 3.3 70B instruct, while being more than 3x faster on the same hardware.

Top benchmarks
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MMLUaccuracy81.0%

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Deployment scope
  • released under the Apache 2.0 license.

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