Mistral AI

Mistral Large 3

Mistral's open-weight Large 3 flagship for multilingual and multimodal tasks, available via OpenRouter and across AWS Bedrock and Azure.

ActiveReleased December 1, 2025Available from 5 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: Mistral API pricing, Mistral model cards

Price per 1M tokens via Mistral (OpenRouter)
$0.5 in / $1.5 out
Context window262,144
Cache read$0.05 / M
ModalitiesText, Image → Text
Priced across5 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRate
Input$0.5 / M
Output$1.5 / M
Cache read$0.05 / M

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$190
at current list prices
Fresh input$100
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$90.00
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Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
AWS BedrockLowest
$0.5$1.5—✓Direct
Azure AI Foundry
$0.5$1.5——Direct
Mistral
$0.5$1.5$0.05—via OpenRouter
AWS Bedrock · Regional
from$0.5$1.5—✓Direct
Azure AI Foundry · Data zone
$0.55$1.65——Direct

Regional deployments are priced per region; the lowest available region rate is shown.

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

EffectiveInput / OutputStatus
July 10, 2026 – July 17, 2026$0.5 / $1.5past
July 17, 2026 – July 19, 2026$0.5 / $1.5past
July 19, 2026$0.5 / $1.5current

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Mistral Medium 3.5
mistral/mistral-medium-3-5
$1.5 / $7.5 in / out per 1M
Codestral 2508
mistral/codestral-2508
$0.3 / $0.9 in / out per 1M

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