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Mistral AIVoxtral familyPreviewSpeech and audioReleased 20 Oct 2026

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)

Cheaper Voxtral 3 transcription model, plus its streaming sibling for voice agents.

Model idvoxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0

Price$0.0035 per minute, batch

Checked25 October 2026

Where it stands

No newer speech and audio model in our registry yet.

All speech and audio models

Before it from Mistral AI
Voxtral TTS23 Mar 2026
Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

2 ways to use Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3), with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
Mistral API (batch) voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0 https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions docs.mistral.ai
Mistral API (realtime, WebSocket) voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-3-0 https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions docs.mistral.ai

Pricing

Prices for Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)
Per minute, batch$0.0035
Per minute, realtime$0.008

As published: “USD per minute of audio (voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0 batch / voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-3-0 streaming)”.

Source: docs.mistral.ai, checked 25 October 2026.

Specs

Input
Audio
Output
Text
Context window
32,000 tokens
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
20 October 2026
Status
Preview
Type
Speech and audio

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Compact 4B transcriber with diarization

    4B-parameter model for 50+ languages with speaker diarization (18.6% macro-average cpWER on Mistral’s chart) and timestamps; ‘small enough to be deployed in resource-constrained environments’.

    Source: mistral.ai

  • #5 on Artificial Analysis AA-WER (2.2%)

    Found after launch

    Fifth on the Artificial Analysis non-streaming speech-to-text leaderboard (AA-WER 2.2%, $3.50 per 1,000 min), tied in WER with ElevenLabs Scribe v2, read 2026-10-25.

    Source: artificialanalysis.ai

  • Realtime variant with configurable latency and end-of-turn detection

    Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 streams over one WebSocket session with latency configurable from 80 ms to 2,400 ms, built-in end-of-turn detection (acoustic + semantic), context biasing and speaker diarization.

    Source: docs.mistral.ai

Notes

Artificial Analysis speech-to-text (https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text), read 2026-10-25: Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 rank #5, AA-WER 2.2%, $3.50 per 1,000 minutes (Realtime 3 not in that non-streaming ranking). Docs: v3.0, ‘Public Preview’, ‘Premier’ tag; no open weights found (unlike the Apache 2.0 Voxtral Realtime 2602 of Feb 2026). Realtime language count is inconsistent on Mistral’s page: 35+ in the post body, 40+ on its card. Realtime 3 is also called ‘Voxtral Realtime Transcribe 3’. Sibling: voxtral-small-transcribe-3 ($0.004/min, higher accuracy). Succeeds voxtral-transcribe-2 (voxtral-mini-2602 / voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602).

curl https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions -H "Authorization: Bearer $MISTRAL_API_KEY" \
  -F model=voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0 -F file=@audio.mp3

Sources: https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3 · https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0 · https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-3-0 · https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text