Side-by-side comparison of Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI · France) and SmolLM3 3B (Hugging Face · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Mistral Medium 3.5 is rated EU-ready; SmolLM3 3B is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Mistral Medium 3.5 is "Modified MIT", SmolLM3 3B is "Apache 2.0".
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| Verdict | EU-ready Per Mistral's published license, Mistral Medium 3.5 ships under a Modified MIT License: vanilla-MIT terms for independent developers, startups and most enterprises, with a revenue-threshold carve-out that routes large companies back to a paid commercial agreement. Paris-headquartered vendor with EU jurisdiction end to end and a 256k-token context. Training-data composition is not published in the model card — usual caveat for high-assurance public-sector deployments. | EU-ready Fully open small model: Apache 2.0 weights, training data published, engineering blueprint public. 6 native languages (EN/FR/ES/DE/IT/PT) covers major EU markets. 128K context via YARN. Strong default for edge or on-prem EU deployments where transparency matters. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-04-16 |
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| Licence | Modified MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Permitted (revenue cap) | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Disclosed |
| Origin | EU (France) | USA |
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