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Voxtral Small Transcribe 3

Mistral’s top-accuracy batch transcription model in the Voxtral 3 line (Oct 2026), EU-hosted API.

Model idvoxtral-small-transcribe-3-0

Price$0.004 per minute

Checked25 October 2026

Where it stands

No newer speech and audio model in our registry yet.

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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 Small Transcribe 3, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Voxtral Small Transcribe 3
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
Mistral API voxtral-small-transcribe-3-0 https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions docs.mistral.ai
Mistral Studio docs (speech-to-text) docs.mistral.ai

Pricing

Prices for Voxtral Small Transcribe 3
Per minute$0.004

As published: “USD per minute of audio (Mistral API)”.

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.

  • Transcription in 50+ languages incl. all 24 official EU languages

    Mistral’s highest-accuracy transcription model; ~4.0-4.1% macro-average WER on FLEURS (45 languages), which Mistral says beats Whisper large-v3, ElevenLabs Scribe v2 and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (vendor-reported).

    Source: mistral.ai

  • Speaker diarization

    Built-in ‘who spoke when’; 18.4% macro-average cpWER on Mistral’s diarization chart vs 19.0% for the best competitor shown (pyannote).

    Source: mistral.ai

  • Context biasing without fine-tuning

    Key terms and free-form context text can be passed with the request to improve recognition of names and jargon.

    Source: mistral.ai

  • #3 on Artificial Analysis AA-WER (2.1%)

    Found after launch

    Third on the Artificial Analysis non-streaming speech-to-text leaderboard (AA-WER 2.1%, $4.00 per 1,000 min), behind Fun-Realtime-ASR-preview (1.7%) and MAI-Transcribe-2 (2.0%), read 2026-10-25.

    Source: artificialanalysis.ai

Notes

Artificial Analysis speech-to-text (https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text), read 2026-10-25: rank #3, AA-WER 2.1%, $4.00 per 1,000 minutes. Docs label it v3.0, ‘Public Preview’ and ‘Premier’ (API-only; no open weights or Hugging Face release found, license page not read). Model card also says it supports translation, speech Q&A, summarization and function calling; context 32k. Exact language list and maximum audio length not stated on the card. Siblings: voxtral-mini-transcribe-3 (4B, $0.0035/min) and Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 (see voxtral-mini-transcribe-3). Successor of Voxtral Transcribe 2 (voxtral-transcribe-2) and the July 2025 Voxtral Small (voxtral-small).

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

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