Mistral Large 3 vs MiniMax M3
Rank, tier, score and price side by side, from our weekly rankings. Scores are editorial opinion based on public sources.
A
Mistral Large 3
B
MiniMax M3
- ProviderMistral AIMiniMax
- Rank#41Higher rank#42
- TierAA
- Score80.9Higher score80.0
- PriceAPI $0.50 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens; open weights (Apache 2.0)Open weights (MiniMax Community License); API $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens via MiniMax (prompts up to 512K; $0.60 / $2.40 above)
- TaglineMistral's December 2025 open-weight (Apache 2.0) Mixture-of-Experts model with 675B total parameters and a 256K-token context window.Natively multimodal open-weight model built for very long agent trajectories.
| Attribute | Mistral Large 3 | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | MiniMax |
| Rank | #41Higher rank | #42 |
| Tier | A | A |
| Score | 80.9Higher score | 80.0 |
| Price | API $0.50 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens; open weights (Apache 2.0) | Open weights (MiniMax Community License); API $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens via MiniMax (prompts up to 512K; $0.60 / $2.40 above) |
| Tagline | Mistral's December 2025 open-weight (Apache 2.0) Mixture-of-Experts model with 675B total parameters and a 256K-token context window. | Natively multimodal open-weight model built for very long agent trajectories. |