Mistral AI · Released Dec 2, 2025Mistral Large 3
Mistral's largest general model for enterprise agents, coding, and multilingual reasoning.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.50per 1M tokens
- Output
- $1.50per 1M tokens
- Context
- 262K262K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.50per million tokens
- Output
- $1.50per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.05per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.75cheaper than 50% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $1.75 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $20.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $200.00 |
Official Mistral API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Mistral Large 3 yet.
The details
- Lab
- Mistral AI
- Released
- Dec 2, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Nov 2024
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 262,144 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- API model ID
mistral-large-2512on Mistral- Availability
- 13 API providerslisted on models.dev
What Mistral AI claims
Published by the lab at launch. Settings vary, so compare these only with care.
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About Mistral Large 3
How much does Mistral Large 3 cost?
Mistral Large 3 costs $0.50 input / $1.50 output per million tokens (official Mistral API price). Cached input is $0.05 per million tokens. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.75 per million tokens, cheaper than 50% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Mistral Large 3?
Mistral Large 3 accepts up to 262,144 tokens per request and can write up to 262,144 tokens in one response.
How good is Mistral Large 3?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Mistral Large 3 yet.
Is Mistral Large 3 open source?
Yes. Mistral AI publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Mistral Large 3 support?
Mistral Large 3 accepts text and images and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Mistral Large 3 released?
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 3 on Dec 2, 2025. Its training data runs to Nov 2024.
What are the best alternatives to Mistral Large 3?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are GPT-5.1 Codex mini (OpenAI, $0.25 / $2.00), Nova 2 Lite (Amazon, $0.33 / $2.75), Qwen3.5 27B (Alibaba (Qwen), $0.30 / $2.40) and MiniMax-M2.1 (MiniMax, $0.30 / $1.20).