Devstral Small API pricing 2512

What it costs on a real workload

Per 1M tokens processed, at the rates above. How the four profiles are defined.

Compare every model on these profiles →

Observed rate history

No repricing observed since this model entered our archive on 2025-12-15. When a rate moves, the change appears here and on the sitewide ticker.

What the record shows

Devstral Small has not repriced once since it entered our archive on 2025-12-15. That is the ordinary case rather than the exception: providers ship new models at lower rates far more often than they cut the price of one already in service, which is why a cheaper option usually arrives as a new name rather than as a smaller number on this page.

Against the 40 models we price, it is the 7th cheapest for retrieval-shaped work, which reads a great deal and writes little, and the 5th cheapest for content-shaped work, which does the reverse. The two are close, so it holds its position whichever way your workload leans.

It charges 3.0 times more for output than for input, against a median of 5.0 times across the set. That is narrower than most, so it punishes long answers less than the typical model does.

Inside Mistral's own lineup it is the 4th cheapest of the 10 models we track on this workload, so 3 cheaper and 6 more expensive options sit on the same account behind the same key.

27 of the 40 models we price offer a larger context window, and 2 match it exactly. Context is a capability limit rather than a cost one: paying more buys no extra room unless the larger window is what you are paying for.

Mistral publishes no cache-read rate for it, so a prompt prefix you send on every call costs the same as text the model has never seen. On a cache-heavy workload that is a structural disadvantage against models that publish one, and it is why the agent profile above prices its whole input at the standard rate.

Whether it accepts image input is not stated in the source we capture, and we do not guess at it.

Its 256k token context window holds roughly 192,000 words of English text in a single request. A workload that does not fit cannot run here at any price, which is a capability limit rather than a cost one.

Priced near this one

Closest to Devstral Small on a retrieval workload, cheaper and more expensive alike. Cost only; we publish no quality score.

Retrieval profile: 800k in, 200k out, 70% cached where offered.