> Mistral Large 3 is an open-weights AI model from Mistral, released 2 Dec 2025. API price $0.50 in / $1.5 out per million tokens, 262K context.

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# Mistral Large 3

Mistral

Released 2 Dec 2025

Open

Date verified

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/mistral-large-3-vs-gpt-5-2/) [Announcement](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3/)

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Index score

Not yet evaluated independently

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Core tests taken

no independent results yet

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Versus the frontier at release

$0.50/ $1.5

Price per million tokens

input / output, list price

262K

Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

Not plotted: no index score yet.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledge

no evidence yet

GPQA Diamond

no result

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

no evidence yet

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

no evidence yet

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

LMArena · Coding

coding questions in chat

#110

of 383 · 1469

LMArena · Text

overall chat quality, judged by people

#123

of 388 · 1414

LMArena · Creative writing

creative writing

#132

of 386 · 1373

LMArena · Maths

maths questions in chat

#137

of 373 · 1401

LMArena · Vision

understanding images

#75

of 149 · 1200

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

overall capability across ten evaluations

#118

of 207 · 9

LMArena · WebDev

building web apps and front ends

#115

of 123 · 1230

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Where to use it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### From the lab

Le Chat

app · subscription

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Mistral API

API

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#### API providers · 1 · per million tokens, in / out

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Mistral

$0.55 / $1.65

cheapest

Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

2 Dec 2025

Announcement

[mistral.ai ↗](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3/)

Release entry

Mistral Large 3 (+ Ministral 3)

Scored as

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Artificial Analysis index

9

Output speed

79 tokens/s

Hugging Face

not linked

## Mistral releases · around this one

Magistral Medium

Closed

10 JUN 2025

Magistral Small

Open

10 JUN 2025

index 118

Mistral Large 3

Open

2 DEC 2025

Devstral 2

Open

9 DEC 2025

Mistral Small 4

Open

16 MAR 2026

~129 est.

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/mistral-large-3/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01