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Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 benchmarks, pricing and specs
Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 is a Mistral AI model released on October 20, 2026 that takes audio input and produces text. It costs $0.004 per audio minute.
- Per audio minute
- $0.004Listed today
Data verified October 23, 2026 · Dataset 2026-10-23
Specs
Key facts
- Provider
- Mistral AI
- Model family
- Voxtral
- Release date
- October 20, 2026
- Status
- Current
- Access
- API only
- API model id
- voxtral-small-transcribe-3-0
- Context window
- Not reported
- Max output
- Not reported
- Input
- audio
- Output
- text
- Task families
- audio
- Declared capabilities
- speech to text, diarization, speech translation, audio understanding
Charts
Against every current audio model
Where Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 lands among the current models of its task, on every independent benchmark, on price and on context.
Where it stands
3 of 13 list a lower price per audio minute. Each bar is the share of current models it beats.
Price and context
Price per audio minute
#4of 13
$0.004 · cheaper than 75%
Price
Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 pricing
It is the #4 cheapest of 13 current audio models priced per audio minute.
Benchmarks
Independent benchmark results
Scores come from independent evaluators that ran the model themselves, pinned to a dated snapshot. Rank is among current models in the same snapshot. Mistral AI's own launch figures are listed under strengths with the publisher named, because they are not measured the same way.
No independent benchmark has published a result for Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 yet. It is still compared below on price, context and capabilities.
Fit
Strengths, cautions and best uses
- Strengths
- The flagship Mistral transcription and diarization model, with timestamps, context biasing and more than 50 languages
- Also translates speech and answers questions about audio through the same API
- Priced at $0.004 per minute; Mistral says it outperforms Whisper, Scribe v2 and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on its own multilingual tests
- Cautions
- Released as a public preview, so behaviour and pricing may change
- Mistral comparisons are its own, and no independent word error rate is recorded here yet
- Best for
- Multilingual meeting and call transcription with speaker labels
- Speech pipelines that must stay on EU-hosted infrastructure
From benchmark to production
Building on Voxtral Small Transcribe 3?
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Alternatives
Alternatives to Voxtral Small Transcribe 3
The closest current audio models by price. The cheapest model that scores as well or better is listed first; failing that, the cheapest one within 3% of the benchmark's scale.
On score and price
Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 beside the 4 alternatives listed below, on price per audio minute.
Price per audio minute
Listed today, lower is better
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 3
- $0.004
- Scribe v2
- $0.00367
- GPT Transcribe
- $0.0045
- Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
- $0.005
- GPT-4o Transcribe
- $0.006
Scribe v2
- 8% cheaper per audio minute, $0.003667 vs $0.004
- From ElevenLabs
GPT Transcribe
- 13% more per audio minute, $0.0045 vs $0.004
- From OpenAI
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
- 25% more per audio minute, $0.005 vs $0.004
- From Google
GPT-4o Transcribe
- 50% more per audio minute, $0.006 vs $0.004
- From OpenAI
Further reading
More on Voxtral Small Transcribe 3
Compare Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 with
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 vs Gemini 3.5 Live Translate Preview
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 vs Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 vs GPT-4o Transcribe
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 vs GPT Transcribe
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 vs Scribe v2
Other Voxtral models
FAQ
Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 FAQ
How much does Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 cost?
Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 costs $0.004 per audio minute at the standard tier. It is the #4 cheapest of 13 current audio models priced per audio minute. Source: Mistral AI, verified October 23, 2026.
Is Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 open source or API only?
Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 is available through Mistral AI's API only; its weights are not published.
What are the best alternatives to Voxtral Small Transcribe 3?
The closest current alternatives by price and measured performance are Scribe v2 (8% cheaper per audio minute, $0.003667 vs $0.004), GPT Transcribe (13% more per audio minute, $0.0045 vs $0.004), Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (25% more per audio minute, $0.005 vs $0.004) and GPT-4o Transcribe (50% more per audio minute, $0.006 vs $0.004).
Sources
Sources
- Voxtral 3 · Mistral AI · official · verified October 23, 2026
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 · Mistral AI · official · verified October 23, 2026
Cite this page
Van Data Team. "Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 Benchmarks, Pricing and Specs." AI Model Benchmark Dataset 2026-10-23. https://vandatateam.com/ai-model-benchmarks/voxtral-small-transcribe-3
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Production evaluation
Deciding whether Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 fits your workload?
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