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Mistral Large 3

Mistral's flagship open-weight model under Apache 2.0 and its return to mixture-of-experts: a granular MoE with 675B total and 41B active parameters, including a 2.5B vision encoder.

Params: 675B, 41B active
Context: 256K tokens
Released: Dec 2025
License: Apache 2.0

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Hosted API price

List price via Mistral · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.50 /1M
Output: $1.50 /1M
Hosted by: 2 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Mistral Large 3, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Mistral Large 3, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Mistral Creator	$0.50	$1.50	$8.00	Visit website
Azure	$0.50	$1.50	$8.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Estimated cost to self-host

Mistral Large 3 needs about 381 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 8× A100 at about $10,138 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 15B tokens a month on Mistral's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Single node ≤ 8

What it costs to self-host Mistral Large 3 at each precision: the memory it needs, the cheapest rental that holds it, that rental's month and the API volume it pays off at
Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (32K context)(Full 256K context)	Cost /mo	Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4	381 GB437 GB	8× A100	$10,138$10,138	15B tokens /mo15B tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8	681 GB709 GB	8× RTX PRO 6000	$12,730$22,723	19B tokens /mo34B tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16	1,360 GB1,416 GB	8× B300	$45,446$45,446	68B tokens /mo68B tokens /mo

Estimates based on median on-demand rates for Nvidia GPUs. Memory is weights plus KV cache for one request, using FP8 KV cache where supported and FP16/BF16 otherwise. KV cache assumed at 250 KB per token, a conservative default. Break-even assumes a 5:1 input-to-output ratio. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. How we estimate costs.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Mistral Large 3 by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Mistral Large 3 per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Mistral Large 3
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B Alibaba Cloud	$0.575	$0.38	$1.55	262K		−14%
GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI	$0.60	$0.40	$1.60	1M	Jun 2024	−10%
Gemini 2.5 Flash Google Cloud	$0.6667	$0.30	$2.50	1M	Jan 2025	0%
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google Cloud	$0.6667	$0.30	$2.50	1M	Mar 2026	0%
GPT-3.5 Turbo OpenAI	$0.6667	$0.50	$1.50	16K	Sep 2021	0%
Mistral Large 3 This model Mistral	$0.6667	$0.50	$1.50	256K
Qwen3.5-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$0.7333	$0.40	$2.40	1M		+10%
GLM-5 Z.AI	$0.7667	$0.60	$1.60	200K		+15%
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek	$0.80	$0.80	$0.80	131K		+20%
GLM-4.7 Z.AI	$0.8667	$0.60	$2.20	205K		+30%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google Cloud	$0.9167	$0.50	$3.00	1M	Jan 2025	+38%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Mistral Large 3 accepts and can do, as published by Mistral.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
File upload Process uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and other files.
Image generation Generate and edit images from text prompts.

Common questions

What is Mistral Large 3 good for?

General multimodal and multilingual work, as Mistral's open-weight flagship. Apache 2.0 weights, on a multi-GPU node.

When is Mistral Large 3 not a good fit?

Self-hosting on modest hardware: memory follows the full 675B parameters, not the 41B active. No audio or video input, it sits near the top of Mistral's price range, and no maximum output length is published.

What is the cheapest way to run Mistral Large 3?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Mistral charges $0.50 in / $1.50 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 8x A100 at $10,138 a month, which costs the same as about 15B tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host Mistral Large 3?

Yes. The weights are Apache 2.0 licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 381 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $10,138 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.