Mistral Small 3 vs text-davinci
Mistral Small 3 (2025) and text-davinci (2022) are compact production models from MistralAI and OpenAI. Mistral Small 3 ships a 33k-token context window, while text-davinci ships a 4k-token context window. This comparison covers specs, pricing, API access, capabilities, benchmarks, input and output token costs, and production fit for coding and agent workloads. It focuses on practical selection signals rather than broad model-family marketing.
Mistral Small 3 fits 8x more tokens; pick it for long-context work and text-davinci for tighter calls.
Decision scorecard
Local evidence first| Signal | Mistral Small 3 | text-davinci |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | tool-calling agents and provider-routed production | general production evaluation |
| Decision fit | Agents, Classification, and JSON / Tool use | General |
| Context window | 33k | 4k |
| Cheapest output | $0.30/1M tokens | - |
| Provider routes | 2 tracked | 0 tracked |
| Shared benchmarks | 0 shared | 0 shared |
Decision tradeoffs
- Mistral Small 3 has the larger context window for long prompts, retrieval packs, or transcript analysis.
- Mistral Small 3 has broader tracked provider coverage for fallback and route flexibility.
- Mistral Small 3 uniquely exposes JSON / Tool use and Structured outputs in local model data.
- Local decision data tags Mistral Small 3 for Agents, Classification, and JSON / Tool use.
- Use text-davinci when your own prompt tests beat the comparison signals; the local data does not show a decisive standalone advantage yet.
Monthly cost at traffic
Estimate token spend from the cheapest tracked input and output route or tier on this page.
Mistral Small 3
$155
Cheapest tracked route/tier: Together AI
text-davinci
Unavailable
No complete token price in local provider data
Cost delta unavailable until both models have sourced input and output token prices.
Switch friction
- No overlapping tracked provider route is sourced for Mistral Small 3 and text-davinci; plan for SDK, billing, or endpoint changes.
- Check replacement coverage for JSON / Tool use and Structured outputs before moving production traffic.
- No overlapping tracked provider route is sourced for text-davinci and Mistral Small 3; plan for SDK, billing, or endpoint changes.
- Mistral Small 3 adds JSON / Tool use and Structured outputs in local capability data.
Specs
| Specification | ||
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2025-01-01 | 2022-01-27 |
| Context window | 33k | 4k |
| Parameters | 24B | 175B |
| Architecture | Decoder Only | Decoder Only |
| License | Apache 2.0OSI-approved | Proprietary |
| Openness | Open source | Proprietary |
| Weights | Unknown | Not released |
| Code | Unknown | Unknown |
| Commercial use | Commercial use: permitted | Commercial use: conditional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2023-10 | 2021-06 |
Pricing and availability
| Pricing attribute | Mistral Small 3 | text-davinci |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.10/1M tokens | - |
| Output price | $0.30/1M tokens | - |
| Providers | - |
Capabilities
| Capability | Mistral Small 3 | text-davinci |
|---|---|---|
| Vision | No | No |
| Multimodal | No | No |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| JSON / Tool use | Yes | No |
| Structured outputs | Yes | No |
| Code execution | No | No |
| IDE integration | No | No |
| Computer use | No | No |
| Parallel agents | No | No |
Benchmarks
No shared benchmark scores are currently available for this pair.
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Last reviewed: 2026-10-06. Data sourced from public model cards and provider documentation.