Is Mistral Nemo or o3-mini cheaper?

Per-token pricing isn't published for at least one of these models, check each model's spec page for current rates.

Which has the larger context window?

o3-mini accepts 200K tokens vs 128K for Mistral Nemo.

Is Mistral Nemo or o3-mini better for coding?

Both Mistral Nemo and o3-mini are competitive on coding benchmarks. See each model's individual spec page for HumanEval and SWE-bench scores where published. For an opinionated pick, consult our Best LLM for Coding ranking.

When were Mistral Nemo and o3-mini released?

Mistral Nemo was released by Mistral on 2024-07-18. o3-mini was released by OpenAI on 2025-01-31.

Is Mistral Nemo or o3-mini cheaper?

Per-token pricing isn't published for at least one of these models, check each model's spec page for current rates.

Which has the larger context window?

o3-mini accepts 200K tokens vs 128K for Mistral Nemo.

Is Mistral Nemo or o3-mini better for coding?

Both Mistral Nemo and o3-mini are competitive on coding benchmarks. See each model's individual spec page for HumanEval and SWE-bench scores where published. For an opinionated pick, consult our Best LLM for Coding ranking.

When were Mistral Nemo and o3-mini released?

Mistral Nemo was released by Mistral on 2024-07-18. o3-mini was released by OpenAI on 2025-01-31.

Mistral Nemo vs o3-mini

A complete head-to-head: pricing, context window, benchmarks, modality coverage, and openness, with a programmatic verdict synthesized from the underlying data.

UpdatedApr 30, 2026

Mistral Nemo specs · o3-mini specs

Verdict by category

Priceo3-mini
o3-mini publishes pricing ($4.40 / 1M output tokens) while Mistral Nemo does not.
Context windowo3-mini
o3-mini accepts 200K tokens vs 128K, 1.6× the room for long documents and codebases.
BenchmarksTie
No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores.
ModalitiesTie
Both handle text.
OpennessMistral Nemo
Mistral Nemo ships open weights (Apache-2.0); o3-mini is API-only.

On balance o3-mini edges ahead, winning 2 of 5 categories against Mistral Nemo's 1. o3-mini publishes pricing ($4.40 / 1M output tokens) while Mistral Nemo does not. o3-mini accepts 200K tokens vs 128K, 1.6× the room for long documents and codebases.

No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores. Both target the same set of modalities (text), so the deciding factors are price, context, and raw quality. Mistral Nemo ships open weights (Apache-2.0); o3-mini is API-only.

o3-mini is the newer of the two, released 7 months after Mistral Nemo, which usually means a more recent knowledge cutoff and updated safety post-training. Mistral Nemo is usually picked for edge deployment and local llm workloads, while o3-mini sees more deployments in reasoning and math. If pricing matters more than every last benchmark point, run the numbers in the calculator below before committing.

Side-by-side specs

Spec	Mistral Nemo	o3-mini
Provider	Mistral	OpenAI
Released	Jul 2024	Jan 2025
Modalities	text	text
Context window	128K tokens	200K tokens
Max output	,	,
Input · 1M	Pricing not published	$1.10 / 1M tokens
Output · 1M	Pricing not published	$4.40 / 1M tokens
Knowledge cutoff	,	2023-10
Open weights	Yes (Apache-2.0)	No
API available	Yes	Yes

Pricing at scale

What you'd actually pay at typical workloads. Numbers come from each model's published per-million-token rates.

Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day, vs $9.90
Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day, vs $99.00
RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day, vs $191

Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates).

Price calculator

Estimated spend for the listed models at your usage. Numbers are derived from each model's published per-million-token rates.

Input tokens / dayOutput tokens / dayHorizon

Mistral NemoPricing unavailable
o3-mini$0.330

Benchmarks compared

Only sourced numbers. Where a benchmark is missing for one model we show the available value rather than fabricating the other.

Mistral Nemoo3-mini

GPQA,79.7

Pick Mistral Nemo if

Mistral Nemo fits when…

Apache-2.0
Single-GPU fit
Multilingual
Self-hosting and on-prem requirements, open weights (Apache-2.0).

Pick o3-mini if

o3-mini fits when…

Reasoning at mid-tier cost
Fast for a thinking model
Long-context tasks, handles 200K tokens vs 128K for Mistral Nemo.

Don't want either?

Consider Mistral Large 2

Mistral's flagship API model, strong on code and reasoning, EU-friendly hosting.

See Mistral Large 2 specs Mistral Nemo vs Mistral Large 2 o3-mini vs Mistral Large 2

Frequently asked

Is Mistral Nemo or o3-mini cheaper?
Per-token pricing isn't published for at least one of these models, check each model's spec page for current rates.
Which has the larger context window?
o3-mini accepts 200K tokens vs 128K for Mistral Nemo.
Is Mistral Nemo or o3-mini better for coding?
Both Mistral Nemo and o3-mini are competitive on coding benchmarks. See each model's individual spec page for HumanEval and SWE-bench scores where published. For an opinionated pick, consult our Best LLM for Coding ranking.
Are either of these models open source?
Mistral Nemo ships open weights (Apache-2.0). o3-mini is API-only.
When were Mistral Nemo and o3-mini released?
Mistral Nemo was released by Mistral on 2024-07-18. o3-mini was released by OpenAI on 2025-01-31.

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