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Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct

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Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct is a language model from Mistral released on Jan 1, 2025. It reads text and writes text, with a 16K token context window and up to 4K tokens per reply.

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It costs $0.038 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens.

It supports tool calling, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.038 / $0.10 per 1M
Context
16K
Max output
4K
Released
Jan 1, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
Dec 2024
  • Tool calling
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Prompt caching
  • Open weights
  • Free to use

Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct 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$0.038 / 1M tokens
Output$0.10 / 1M tokens

What Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct costs per month

Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.

Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct per month
$3.90
Without caching
$3.90
Per request
$0.0001

Supported request parameters

What you can set when you call Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct through an OpenAI compatible API.

  • Toolstools
  • Temperaturetemperature

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Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct questions

How much does the Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct API cost?

$0.038 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.

What is the context window of Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct?

16,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 4,096 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.

Does Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct support tool calling?

Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.

Is Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct 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 Nemo 12B Instruct released?

Jan 1, 2025, with training data up to Dec 2024.

Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.

Building on Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct?

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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