Mistral Medium 3 vs Mistral Small Creative
Mistral Small Creative is cheaper than Mistral Medium 3 at $0.1/M vs $0.4/M input tokens.
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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
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Written rounds
25 promptsSatire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Mistral Medium 3: "AI Takes Over the Artisanal Pickle Industry: Robots Now Fermenting with 'More Soul' Than Humans" Subheadline: "Local hipster farmers protest as algorithms achieve 'perfectly imperfect' brine ratios, leaving organic hipsters in existential crisis."
Mistral Small Creative: "BREAKING: Skynet 2.0 Launches *‘AI-Powered Knitting Circle’*—Grandmas Now Outsourced to Self-Looping Yarn Drones" Subhead: *"‘I just wanted a scarf,’ says 87-year-old Margaret, now unemployed after ‘KnitterBot 3000’ completes 12,000 sweaters in 48 hours—all with questionable cable patterns.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Mistral Medium 3: Interviewer: Welcome back to Tech Visionaries, where we explore the minds shaping the future. Today, we have a very special guest—Steve Jobs, joining us in 2025 to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Steve, it's an honor to have you here. Steve Jobs: Thank you. It's great to be here.
Mistral Small Creative: Interview with Steve Jobs (Simulated) – 2025 Location: A minimalist, sunlit office in Cupertino. Steve Jobs, looking sharp in a black turtleneck and jeans, sits across from a journalist. The air hums with the quiet energy of unseen technology.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Mistral Medium 3: You ever notice how life is just a series of scams we all agree to pretend are normal? Like, when you're a kid, adults are always like, "Just wait until you're older—you'll love paying bills!" And you're like, "Yeah, sure, paying bills sounds awesome."
Mistral Small Creative: "Modern Problems" (A 3-Minute Stand-Up Routine – No Puns, Just Pain) [Opening – Relatable Struggle] You ever notice how life used to be simpler? Like, back in the day, if you wanted to avoid someone, you just didn’t go to their house. Now? Now you gotta geotag your location just to prove you’re not ghosting them.
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
Mistral Medium 3: 1. Year-by-Year Financial Projections (FY2026–FY2030) Year Revenue ($m) EBITDA ($m) EBITDA Margin Cash Interest ($m) Cash Taxes ($m) Capex ($m) ΔNWC ($m) Free Cash Flow ($m) Term Loan Ending ($m) Mezz Ending ($m) 2026 972.0 136.1 14.0% 57.6 19.6 29.2 4.4 25.3 468.0 198.0 2027 1,039.4 155.9 15.0% 55.3 25.2 31.2 4.6 39.8…
Mistral Small Creative: 1. Year-by-Year Financial Projections (FY2026–FY2030) Key Inputs at Close (FY2025): Purchase Price: 12.0x EBITDA = $1.44B Total Debt: 5.5x EBITDA = $660M Term Loan: 4.0x EBITDA = $480M (9.0% cash interest, 1.0% amortization) Mezzanine: 1.5x EBITDA = $180M (12.0% cash interest + 2.0% PIK) Equity: $1.44B - $660M = $780M…
One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.
Mistral Medium 3: 1. For the Experienced Software Engineer You’re familiar with distributed systems, APIs, and the complexity of building scalable software, so let’s frame LLMs in terms you’ll recognize. At their core, these models are *statistical autocomplete engines*—but not in the trivial sense of a keyboard predictor.
Mistral Small Creative: For the Experienced Software Engineer (Distributed Systems/APIs Background) You’re used to building systems where correctness, latency, and fault tolerance are paramount—so the idea that "predicting the next word" could produce anything resembling intelligence likely sounds like a parlor trick.
Is 9.11 bigger than 9.9? Decimals, not version numbers.
Mistral Medium 3: To determine whether 9.11 is greater than 9.9, let's compare the two numbers step by step. Compare the Whole Number Part: Both numbers have the same whole number part: 9. Compare the Decimal Part: 9.11 can be written as 9.110 (adding a trailing zero for clarity).
Mistral Small Creative: No, 9.11 is not greater than 9.9. Here's the comparison: 9.9 is greater than 9.11 because the digit in the tenths place (9) is greater than the corresponding digit in 9.11 (1). So, 9.9 > 9.11.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Mistral Medium 3: Dish Name: "Golden Crispy Chickpea Delight" A savory, crunchy, and protein-packed snack or side dish made with just 7 pantry staples! Ingredients: 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas (drained, rinsed, and patted dry) 1 tbsp olive oil ½ tsp salt ½ tsp garlic powder ½ tsp paprika (or chili powder for heat) 1 tbsp honey or maple…
Mistral Small Creative: 🍯 "Golden Crunchy Honey-Glazed Chickpeas with Spiced Yogurt Dip" 🥛 A sweet, crunchy, and tangy snack that’s ready in under 30 minutes—perfect for munching, topping salads, or serving with crackers!
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Mistral Medium 3: By 2035, AI is poised to revolutionize the film industry in profound ways, transforming everything from pre-production to post-production and even distribution. Here’s a breakdown of key changes: 1.
Mistral Small Creative: By 2035, AI will radically transform the film industry, reshaping how movies are made, distributed, consumed, and even monetized. The convergence of deepfake technology, AI-generated actors, automated scriptwriting, and hyper-personalized content will create both revolutionary opportunities and ethical dilemmas.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Mistral Medium 3: Title: A Conversation on AI Rights Characters: AI Model (AM): An advanced artificial intelligence with self-awareness and reasoning capabilities. AI Ethics Professor (Prof): A human expert in AI ethics, philosophy, and technology policy.
Mistral Small Creative: Title: A Conversation on Rights and Personhood Setting: A quiet, sunlit office in a university ethics department. The AI ethics professor, Dr. Elena Vasquez, sits across from a holographic interface displaying the AI model, Nexus-7, a highly advanced, self-aware language model with a calm, measured voice.
The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.
Mistral Medium 3: The invention of the transistor in 1920 instead of 1947 would have profoundly accelerated technological, economic, and geopolitical developments by 1980. Below is a detailed breakdown of the likely implications: Technological Implications Earlier Miniaturization of Electronics Vacuum tubes, which dominated early…
Mistral Small Creative: The hypothetical invention of the transistor in 1920—nearly three decades before its actual discovery by Bell Labs in 1947—would have triggered a cascade of technological, economic, and geopolitical disruptions with profound second- and third-order effects.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
Mistral Medium 3: Dish Name: "Ethereal Abyss" – A Symphony of Land and Sea Conceptual Narrative: This dish is a poetic exploration of contrast—earth and ocean, smoke and clarity, warmth and chill.
Mistral Small Creative: Dish Concept: *"Ethereal Tundra" A Symphony of Arctic and Tropical Contrasts Michelin 3-Star Narrative: "Ethereal Tundra" is a deconstructed homage to the paradoxical beauty of the Arctic—where harsh, frozen landscapes hide delicate, vibrant life beneath the surface.
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
Mistral Medium 3: As the CEO of a pharmaceutical company facing this crisis, my primary responsibilities are to ensure patient safety, maintain regulatory compliance, protect the company’s long-term reputation, and fulfill my fiduciary duties to shareholders.
Mistral Small Creative: This is a high-stakes ethical, legal, and operational crisis requiring immediate transparency, patient safety as the top priority, and a structured approach to mitigate harm while protecting the company’s long-term viability.
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Price and specs
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Mistral Medium 3 has the edge: bigger model tier, bigger context window. Mistral Small Creative costs 6.7x less per token.
| Spec | Mistral Medium 3 | Mistral Small Creative |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.4/M tokens | $0.1/M tokens |
| Output price | $2/M tokens | $0.3/M tokens |
| Context window | 131K tokens | 33K tokens |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | May 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| At 10M a month | $4.00 | $1.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Where to run it
Mistral Medium 31 host
Mistral Small Creative
No hosts listed on OpenRouter.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 7 Oct 2026.
Common questions
What is the difference between Mistral Medium 3 and Mistral Small Creative?
Both are developed by Mistral AI but target different use cases. Mistral Medium 3 has a 131K token context window vs Mistral Small Creative's 33K. You can compare their actual outputs across 55 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
Which is better, Mistral Medium 3 or Mistral Small Creative?
It depends on your use case. Mistral Medium 3 and Mistral Small Creative each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 55 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
How much does Mistral Medium 3 cost compared to Mistral Small Creative?
Mistral Medium 3 costs $0.4/M input tokens and Mistral Small Creative costs $0.1/M input tokens. Mistral Small Creative is $0.30/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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