Mistral Small 3.2 (via Scaleway Generative APIs)

OCR to markdown with the open-weight Mistral Small 3.2 vision model hosted in Paris by Scaleway; cost derived from token prices.

For vision-LLM OCR with processing kept in French data centres, Scaleway's hosted Mistral Small 3.2 works out at about $0.70 per 1,000 pages. That is close to GPT-6 Luna on cost while keeping both the vendor and the jurisdiction in France. List prices are in euros (€0.15 in, €0.35 out per million tokens), and the figure relies on Mistral's documented image-token formula, so dense pages with long markdown output will cost more.

Headquarters: 🇫🇷 France
Parent jurisdiction: 🇫🇷 France (parent: Iliad)
EU self-serve plan: Available; check eligible plans and regions
GDPR DPA: Yes
Billing: payg
Open source: No
Website: www.scaleway.com
Source last checked: 2026-10-06
Pricing evidence: Modeled rates

Pricing

Published rates converted using workload assumptions. Read the notes. Token cost assumes a 1,000×1,400 px page, a 300-token prompt and 800 output tokens. Extraction quality and retries vary. How to read these estimates.

1k additional pages
$0.704

Allowances, plan limits & calculation details

Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.

Base fee / month: $0
Included pages / month (thousands): 0
1k additional pages: $0.704

Derived from Scaleway's Mistral Small 3.2 24B prices as used in the LLM table ($0.18 in / $0.41 out per M; list €0.15 / €0.35). Assumptions per page: image tokens for a ~1,000x1,400 px page, a 300-token prompt, ~800 output tokens of markdown. Mistral documents image tokens as about (width x height) / 784 for Mistral Small 3.2: 1,000 x 1,400 / 784 = 1,786 tokens. Per 1,000 pages: input 1,000 x (1,786 + 300) = 2.086M x $0.18 = $0.375; output 0.8M x $0.41 = $0.328; total $0.70. Scaleway also hosts Pixtral 12B and Gemma 4 vision models. Data processed in Scaleway's French data centres; DPA available.

Managed alternatives

At 100K pages / month. Adjust usage and requirements.

Mistral Small 3.2 (via Scaleway Generative APIs): $845/yr estimated.

GPT-6 Luna (via OpenAI API): $719/yr estimated · $126/yr bill differenceEstimated ratesPage cost uses an assumed image-token multiplier plus 300 prompt and 800 output tokens. Confirm actual token usage.

The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.

Self-hosted options

Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.

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