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Mistral Voxtral 3

Mistral Voxtral 3 is ranked #6 of 11 for AI voice and audio on AI Tool Podium.

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Mistral's speech models for developers: batch and realtime transcription, text-to-speech and a voice agents SDK. Very cheap per-minute transcription, on Mistral's EU-hosted API or self-deployed. Public preview, API first rather than an app.

Mistral Voxtral 3 fact sheet

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What it does
A family of speech models from Mistral: Mini Transcribe 3, Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 and Small Transcribe 3 for speech to text, TTS 3 for text to speech, and a Voice Agents SDK built on LiveKit. Released in public preview on Oct 20, 2026.Source: mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3 · checked
Pricing
Pay per use on the Mistral API. Small Transcribe 3 costs $0.004 per minute of audio. TTS 3 is billed separately per million characters.Source: docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-small-transcribe-3-0.md · checked
Key features
  • Batch and realtime transcription models
  • Text to speech and a voice agents SDK built on LiveKit
  • Use it on Mistral's EU-hosted API or deploy it yourself
Source: mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3 · checked

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What is Mistral Voxtral 3?

Mistral's speech models for developers: batch and realtime transcription, text-to-speech and a voice agents SDK. Very cheap per-minute transcription, on Mistral's EU-hosted API or self-deployed. Public preview, API first rather than an app.

How much does Mistral Voxtral 3 cost?

Pay per use on the Mistral API. Small Transcribe 3 costs $0.004 per minute of audio. TTS 3 is billed separately per million characters. Source: https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-small-transcribe-3-0.md, checked 2026-10-23.

Where does Mistral Voxtral 3 rank?

Mistral Voxtral 3 is ranked #6 of 11 for AI voice and audio on AI Tool Podium. Ranking last updated 2026-11-10.

What are the alternatives to Mistral Voxtral 3?

Other tools in our AI voice and audio ranking: ElevenLabs, Suno, Descript, Wispr Flow, Cartesia, Willow Voice, DictaFlow, WhisperWeb, RemoveBGNoise, SFXMint.

Where is the official Mistral Voxtral 3 website?

The official site is https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/

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