Mistral Large 3: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Mistral Large 3 costs $0.5 per 1M input tokens and $1.5 per 1M output tokens, with a 256K context window. Mid-priced: dearer than 41% of this rating, with Codestral as the nearest cheaper Mistral AI option. Recorded for vision, reasoning, free tier.

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Capabilities

API $/1M (in / out)

$0.5 / $1.5

Context window

256K tokens

Price / mo

API only

Overview Reviews

Mistral Large 3 is an AI model from Mistral AI, priced at $0.5 input and $1.5 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the budget tier of this rating — cheaper than 57% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 256K tokens in a single conversation. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, vision, reasoning, tool calling, structured JSON output. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$0.5 / $1.5per 1M tokens, in / out

Context256K tokenstokens per conversation

VendorMistral AIall models from this vendor

TierBudgetcheaper than 57% of models

Cost calculator

1M tokens/mo10M tokens/mo50M tokens/mo200M tokens/mo

Standard$1.25~~AED 5 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.63~~AED 2 per month~~

With caching on input$1.14~~AED 4 per month~~

Standard$12.50~~AED 46 per month~~

With batch −50%$6.25~~AED 23 per month~~

With caching on input$11.38~~AED 42 per month~~

Standard$62.50~~AED 230 per month~~

With batch −50%$31.25~~AED 115 per month~~

With caching on input$56.88~~AED 209 per month~~

Standard$250~~AED 918 per month~~

With batch −50%$125~~AED 459 per month~~

With caching on input$228~~AED 835 per month~~

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Mistral Large 3 sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

Aion-3.0-Mini

Cheaper

Aion Labs

$0.7 / $1.4131.1K tokens

Mistral Large 3 2512

Closest match

Mistral AI

$0.5 / $1.5262.1K tokens

Qwen3.5-27B

Step up

Alibaba (Qwen)

$0.195 / $1.56262.1K tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit

Multi-step analysis, planning and code review, where the first plausible answer is often wrong.
Reading screenshots, charts, scanned documents and photos.

Poor fit

Classification, routing and short summaries — a small model does these identically for a fraction of the price.

Related filters

Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat

Vision159 models that read images

Reasoning175 models that think before answering

Tool calling172 models that call your functions

Prompt caching153 models with cheap repeated context

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Mistral Large 3 cost?

$0.5 / $1.5 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 1.84 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Mistral Large 3?

256K tokens in a single conversation.

What can Mistral Large 3 do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, vision, reasoning, tool calling, structured JSON output, prompt caching, batch API, free tier, frontier tier, multilingual, proprietary API.

Is Mistral Large 3 a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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