Migrating from mistral-medium-3-5 to mistral-large-4

What changes when you move from mistral-medium-3-5 to mistral-large-4: input price −53.3%, output price −72%, context window 256,000 → 1,000,000 tokens.

From: mistral-medium-3-5
Status: Deprecated
Shutdown: Apr 30, 2027
Time left: 180 days

To: mistral-large-4
Status: Active
Shutdown: none announced
Time left: —

Prices

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier

Type	mistral-medium-3-5	mistral-large-4	Change
Input	$1.50first seen October 5, 2026 · source	$0.70first seen October 30, 2026 · source	−53.3%
Cached input	Not published	$0.07first seen October 30, 2026 · source	—
Output	$7.50first seen October 5, 2026 · source	$2.10first seen October 30, 2026 · source	−72%

At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $3.375 on mistral-medium-3-5, $1.225 on mistral-large-4 (−63.7%).

Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.

Limits

Tokens

Limit	mistral-medium-3-5	mistral-large-4	Change
Context window	256,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source	1,000,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source	+290.6%
Max output tokens	Not published	Not published	—

Benchmarks

Same benchmark, source and setting on both sides

Benchmark	mistral-medium-3-5	mistral-large-4	Change
Arena TextArena.	1426 ±6	1432 ±6	+6 within range
Arena Text: CodingArena.	1477 ±11	1496 ±12	+19 within range
Arena WebDevArena. Ranges don't overlap.	1264 ±15	1544 ±11	+280
Arena VisionArena. Ranges don't overlap.	1200 ±10	1252 ±19	+52
Arena AgentArena. Ranges don't overlap.	-0.126 ±0.017	-0.060 ±0.021	+0.066

A score from one source is never compared with another source's, and company-reported scores are compared only within the same company; settings named where they differ. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.

Features and parameters

Compare models

Same on both

Structured outputs: supported on both.mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-large-4: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Function calling: supported on both.mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-large-4: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Batch API: supported on both.mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-large-4: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Image input: supported on both.mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-large-4: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
PDF input: supported on both.mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-large-4: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Reasoning / thinking: supported on both.mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-large-4: first seen October 7, 2026 · source

Not published for mistral-medium-3-5: Prompt caching, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.

Not published for mistral-large-4: Prompt caching, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.

Aliases

All aliases

Aliases pointing at mistral-medium-3-5: mistral-medium-latest (in place when tracking began on October 6, 2026 · source)

No aliases point at mistral-large-4.

Checklist

Change the model string from mistral-medium-3-5 to mistral-large-4.

Time until shutdown

mistral-medium-3-5

180days

16hours

00min

37sec

Counting to 8:00 pm ET on April 29, 2027, which is 00:00 UTC on April 30, 2027.

Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: mistral-medium-3-5, mistral-large-4.