Mistral Large 3
Mistral's December 2025 open-weight (Apache 2.0) Mixture-of-Experts model with 675B total parameters and a 256K-token context window.
Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .
- Overall rank
- #41
- Tier
- A
- Score
- 80.9
- Main category
- Overall
Strengths
- Apache 2.0 open weights with 675B total and 41B active parameters
- 256K-token context window with multimodal input
- Low API price of $0.50 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens
Considerations
- Mistral now positions Medium 3.5 as its frontier model for agentic and coding work
- May lag behind the latest proprietary models in raw performance
Price
API $0.50 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens; open weights (Apache 2.0)
Shown for reference — price is not part of the score.
Score breakdown
- Performance
- 83.0
- 55% of score
- Reputation
- 80.0
- 35% of score
- Recency
- 72.0
- 10% of score
The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →
Verification status
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Checked against the sources listed below.
Sources
- Mistral Docs — Compare (Mistral Large 3) (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Models - Mistral AI Documentation (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- TeamDay.ai Frontier AI Models 2026 (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- AI Index Report 2026 (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Mistral AI — Mistral Large 4 (successor) (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
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- Mistral Docs — Open-weight models (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Mistral Docs — Models Overview (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Models Overview - Mistral AI Documentation (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Mistral AI — Frontier AI LLMs (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- 15 Best AI Models in 2026 for Every Use Case: APIs vs Open Weights (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
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