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Voxtral 3
Voxtral 3 is Mistral AI's latest voice model in our dataset (public preview), released Oct 20, 2026. Mistral's third-generation speech family, in public preview since Oct 20, 2026: Mini Transcribe, Small Transcribe, Mini Transcribe Realtime and Mini TTS, plus a voice agent SDK. Verified against vendor sources on Oct 26, 2026.
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- ReleasedOct 20, 2026
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Key facts
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Mistral AI | n/a |
| Released | Oct 20, 2026 Mistral's model cards list Oct 20, 2026 for each Voxtral 3 model. | source |
| Status | public preview | n/a |
| API id | voxtral-mini-tts-3-0, voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0, voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-3-0, voxtral-small-transcribe-3-0 | source |
| Pricing | Mini Transcribe 3, per minute of audio $0.0035; Small Transcribe 3, per minute of audio $0.004; Mini Transcribe Realtime 3, per minute of audio $0.008; Mini TTS 3, per 1M characters $13; Voice agent API with Mistral Small 4 for reasoning, per minute $0.04; Voice agent API with a larger model, per minute $0.08 (see each line) Prices are from Mistral's announcement table. | source |
Where Voxtral 3 sits in our data
- Released Oct 20, 2026 (week 43 of 2026), in October 2026. Other models in our data released that month: GPT-6.1 Terra, Kimi K3.1 Pro, Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (4GB), Mercury 3, MiniMax M3.1 Flash.
- The previous Mistral AI model we track is Mistral Large 4 (Oct 6, 2026), 14 days earlier.
- Mistral AI tools we cover: Mistral Le Chat.
- All releases by date: AI model releases by month · new AI models this week.
How Voxtral 3 differs from Voxtral TTS
Read from the recorded facts of the two models, not from a head-to-head test. We have not run either.
- Status is public preview, against generally available.
- Voxtral 3 came out 211 days after Voxtral TTS.
- Facts for the other model: Voxtral TTS.
What the sources say
These are claims from the linked pages, not our measurements.
- Mistral says Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 ranks 3rd on the FLEURS multilingual transcription and English diarization benchmarks. This is a vendor claim.
Notes
- Mistral says Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 has 4B parameters, and that Small Transcribe 3 outperforms Whisper, Scribe v2 and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on its own evaluations.
What we tested
Nothing yet. We have not run Voxtral 3 ourselves, so every fact on this page is Reported from the sources below. When we do test it, the scope will be stated here and in our test logs. See methodology.
Not verified, left out
We could not confirm these on a vendor page, so we do not state them.
- Per-model context windows and license terms were not captured; Mistral offers API access (EU, US, global endpoints) and self-deployment, but we did not verify the terms for either.
- Mistral also shipped a Voice Agent SDK (built on LiveKit) with the launch, plus Pro Voice adaptation; we list prices only.
Sources
More from Mistral AI
- Voxtral TTS (Mar 23, 2026)
- Mistral Large 4 (Oct 6, 2026)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 (Apr 28, 2026)
- Mistral Small 4 (Mar 16, 2026)
- Ministral 3 14B (Dec 2, 2025)