Mistral Large 3
API ID mistral-large-2512
Mistral Large 3 is a Mistral model, released December 2025. It has a 256,000-token context window. It takes image and PDF input and supports function calling and structured outputs. Standard price: $0.50 input and $1.50 output per 1M tokens.
Mistral Large 3, is a state-of-the-art, open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a granular Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It features 41B active parameters and 675B total parameters.
- Status
- Active
- Released
- December 2025
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Replacement
- —
No deprecation or shutdown date has been announced as of October 15, 2026.
Benchmarks
Scores as each source published themComparing with Mistral Large 2.1, the previous model in this line. A score is compared only with the same benchmark from the same source, at the same setting where both have it. Full comparison: prices, limits, features
Arena
| Arena | Mistral Large 3 | Mistral Large 2.1 | Change | Rank | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TextBy category
| 1414 ±3 | 1306 ±4 | +108 | 143 of 415 83,498 votes | Oct 13, 2026 | source |
| Text: Coding | 1471 ±5 | 1346 ±9 | +125 | 125 of 410 21,009 votes | Oct 13, 2026 | source |
| WebDev | 1230 ±25 | not rated | 134 of 142 839 votes | Oct 13, 2026 | source | |
| Vision | 1200 ±8 | not rated | 92 of 165 8,643 votes | Oct 9, 2026 | source |
Rated as mistral-large-3; Mistral Large 2.1 as mistral-large-2411. Ratings come from people voting between two anonymous answers; Text and Vision are style-controlled, as on arena.ai. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Platform | Platform ID | State | Shutdown | Time left | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock | mistral.mistral-large-3-675b-instruct | Active | not before Dec 2, 2026 | — | source | |
| Microsoft Foundryversion 1 | Mistral-Large-3 | Active | none announced | — | source |
Read daily from each platform's own pages. The shutdown date and countdown on this page use Mistral's own date.
Aliases pointing here: mistral-large-latest (in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026))
Features
Compare models| Feature | Value | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Structured outputsThe model can be held to a JSON schema you supply, so every reply parses without retries or cleanup. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) | source |
| Function callingAlso called tool use. You describe functions; the model replies with a function name and arguments for your code to run, then uses the result. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) | source |
| Batch APISend many requests as one job that runs in the background, usually finished within 24 hours, at a lower price than live requests. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) | source |
| Image inputImages such as screenshots, photos and charts can go in the prompt for the model to read. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) | source |
| PDF inputPDF files can go in the prompt directly, without converting them to text first. | Supported | in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) | source |
| Context windowThe most the model can work with in one request, in tokens: your prompt, conversation history and files. A token is about three-quarters of an English word. | 256,000 tokens | in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) | source |
Not published by Mistral: Prompt caching, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.
Price history
USD per 1M tokens, standard tierWe started recording this model's prices on Oct 5, 2026. The history grows with each daily check.
Show as a table
| From | Type | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2026 | Input | $0.50 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Output | $1.50 |
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, every type and band, by tier| Type | Price $/1M | In effect |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | ||
| input | $0.50 | |
| output | $1.50 | |
Changelog
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