Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is a language model from Mistral released on Nov 1, 2024. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 262K token context window and up to 262K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $0.05, 90% less than fresh input.
It supports tool calling, structured JSON output and prompt caching, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
15 providers serve it, including Amazon Bedrock, Vercel AI Gateway and DevPass (LLM Gateway).
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.50 / $1.50 per 1M
- Context
- 262K
- Max output
- 262K
- Released
- Nov 1, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Nov 2024
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Mistral Large 3 pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.50 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $1.50 / 1M tokens | |
| Cached input (read) | $0.05 / 1M tokens | 90% off input |
Mistral Large 3 providers
15 providers serve it, including Amazon Bedrock, Vercel AI Gateway and DevPass (LLM Gateway). Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral First party | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.05 | 262K | 262K |
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.50 | $1.50 | – | 262K | 8K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.05 | 262K | 256K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.50 | $1.50 | – | 262K | 262K |
| Eden AI | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.05 | 262K | 262K |
| Kilo Gateway | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.05 | 262K | 210K |
| LLM Gateway | $0.50 | $1.50 | – | 262K | 262K |
| Merge Gateway | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.05 | 256K | 256K |
| Opper | $0.50 | $1.50 | – | 256K | 8K |
| Pioneer | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.50 | 256K | 131K |
| Prime Inference | $0.50 | $1.50 | – | 262K | 210K |
| Tempr Gateway | $0.50 | $1.50 | – | 262K | 262K |
Showing 12 of 15 providers: the lab first, then the major clouds, then the cheapest resellers.
What Mistral Large 3 costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Mistral Large 3 through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Temperature
temperature
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Mistral Large 3 questions
How much does the Mistral Large 3 API cost?
$0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.05. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Mistral Large 3?
262,144 tokens of input, and it can write up to 262,144 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Mistral Large 3?
15 providers serve it, including Amazon Bedrock, Vercel AI Gateway and DevPass (LLM Gateway). Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Mistral Large 3 support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Mistral Large 3 open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Mistral Large 3 released?
Nov 1, 2024, with training data up to Nov 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. Independent scores from my hand checked rankings, sources linked above. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Mistral Large 3?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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