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Migrating from pixtral-large-2411 to mistral-medium-3-5

What changes when you move from pixtral-large-2411 to mistral-medium-3-5: input price −25%, output price +25%, context window 128,000 → 256,000 tokens.

Status
Retired
Shutdown
May 31, 2026
Time left
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Status
Active
Shutdown
none announced
Time left
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Prices

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier
Typepixtral-large-2411mistral-medium-3-5Change
Input$2.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source$1.50first seen October 5, 2026 · source−25%
Output$6.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source$7.50first seen October 5, 2026 · source+25%

At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $3.50 on pixtral-large-2411, $3.375 on mistral-medium-3-5 (−3.6%).

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

Limits

Tokens
Limitpixtral-large-2411mistral-medium-3-5Change
Context window128,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source256,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source+100%
Max output tokensNot publishedNot published—

Benchmarks

Same benchmark, source and setting on both sides
Benchmarkpixtral-large-2411mistral-medium-3-5Change
Arena VisionArena. Ranges don't overlap.1095 ±91200 ±10+105

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.pixtral-large-2411: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Function calling: supported on both.pixtral-large-2411: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Batch API: supported on both.pixtral-large-2411: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Image input: supported on both.pixtral-large-2411: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • PDF input: supported on both.pixtral-large-2411: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source

Not published for pixtral-large-2411: Prompt caching, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.

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

Aliases pointing at pixtral-large-2411: pixtral-large-latest (in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source)

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

Checklist

  1. Change the model string from pixtral-large-2411 to mistral-medium-3-5.
  2. Re-check costs: mistral-medium-3-5 costs more than pixtral-large-2411 (output +25%).

Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: pixtral-large-2411, mistral-medium-3-5.