Mistral Small 3 vs Sao10K Llama 3 8B Lunaris
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Llama 3 8B Lunaris is 1.4× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Mistral Small 3 accepts longer prompts: 33K vs 8K tokens.
- Mistral Small 3 is the newer model (released 2025-01-30).
| Mistral Small 3 | Llama 3 8B Lunaris | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Mistral | Sao10K |
| Released | 2025-01-30 | 2024-08-13 |
| Input / 1M | $0.05 | $0.04 |
| Output / 1M | $0.08 | $0.05 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.058 | $0.042 |
| Context | 33K | 8K |
| Max output | 16K | 7K |
| Accepts | text | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 2 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.08 | $0.05 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
Mistral Small 3
$4.20 per month$0.14 per day
Llama 3 8B Lunaris
$3.15 per month$0.10 per day
Llama 3 8B Lunaris saves $1.05 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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