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Mistral Large 3

Mistral's flagship open-weight model. 675B total parameters (41B active) via Mixture of Experts. #2 open-source non-reasoning model on LMArena. Apache 2.0 license.

4.6/ 5.0
Free Tier
128K context
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Pricing

Free
Limited features
API Pricing
Input$2/1M tokens
Output$6/1M tokens

Ratings

Overall
4.6
Coding
4.6
Writing
4.4
Reasoning
4.5
Speed
4.5
Value
4.8

Pros

  • Apache 2.0 open-weight license — fully self-hostable
  • 675B total params (41B active) via MoE architecture
  • #2 open-source model on LMArena
  • Strong multilingual support
  • Competitive coding performance
  • EU-based company (GDPR-friendly)

Cons

  • Not as capable as GPT-5.2 or Claude Opus on hard tasks
  • Large model requires significant hardware to self-host
  • Smaller ecosystem than OpenAI/Anthropic
  • Limited agentic tool support

Best For

Self-hosting, enterprise deployment, EU compliance, open-source projects

Quick Info

Provider
Mistral AI
Version
3.0
Released
Dec 2025
Context
128K tokens

Features

Vision/Images
Audio
Video
PDF Processing
Code Generation
AI Agents

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