Mistral: Mistral Small 3 alternatives
Ranked by capability overlap, similar context window, and similar price tier. Cross-vendor options are weighted higher than same-provider alternatives.
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Top 15 alternatives
| # | Model | Provider | Why | Context | Input price / 1M | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B | DeepSeek | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 33K Short/standard context | $0.29 Budget | vs → |
| 2 | Google: Gemma 3n 4B | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 33K Short/standard context | $0.06 Budget | vs → | |
| 3 | Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 33K Short/standard context | $0.30 Budget | vs → | |
| 4 | Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.25 Budget | vs → | |
| 5 | Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Qwen | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 33K Short/standard context | $0.10 Budget | vs → |
| 6 | Qwen: Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct | Qwen | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 33K Short/standard context | $0.03 Budget | vs → |
| 7 | Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 | Qwen | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 82K Short/standard context | $0.20 Budget | vs → |
| 8 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Qwen | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 33K Short/standard context | $0.36 Budget | vs → |
| 9 | AllenAI: Olmo 3 32B Think | Allenai | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.15 Budget | vs → |
| 10 | AllenAI: Olmo 3 7B Instruct | Allenai | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.10 Budget | vs → |
| 11 | AllenAI: Olmo 3 7B Think | Allenai | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.12 Budget | vs → |
| 12 | AllenAI: Olmo 3.1 32B Instruct | Allenai | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.20 Budget | vs → |
| 13 | AllenAI: Olmo 3.1 32B Think | Allenai | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.15 Budget | vs → |
| 14 | Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B | Baidu | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 123K Short/standard context | $0.28 Budget | vs → |
| 15 | EssentialAI: Rnj 1 Instruct | Essentialai | shares structured-output · similar price tier | 33K Short/standard context | $0.15 Budget | vs → |