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Mistral Small: price on every cloud

Open weights · 24 billion parameters · 32,768-token context · licence apache-2.0

Per token, by cloud

US dollars per million tokens, each cloud's cheapest region.
CloudInput, per 1M tokensOutput, per 1M tokensCheapest region
Core42$0.12$0.36uae
AWS$1.00$3.00us-east-1
Azure——not sold per token
OCI——not sold per token
Alibaba Cloud——not sold per token
Google Cloud——not sold per token

Run it yourself

It needs 58.9 GB of GPU memory at bf16, the precision it ships in.

CloudCheapest instance that fitsGPUsAn hourA month, around the clock
AzureStandard_NC24ads_A100_v41 × A100 80 GB$3.67$2,681
Google Cloudg4-standard-481 × RTX PRO 6000 96 GB$4.50$3,285
Alibaba Cloudecs.gn9gc.4xlarge1 × L20N 72 GB$6.71$4,898
AWSp5.4xlarge1 × H100 80 GB$6.88$5,022

At the cheapest per-token price, running it on Azure Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4 pays off above roughly 14.9 billion tokens a month.

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List prices collected 5 October 2026, refreshed every three hours. No negotiated rates or taxes.