Mistral · AI model API pricing
How much does Mistral Large 3 cost?
Open-weight and aggressively priced — cheaper than most budget tiers despite being a large model.
Rate card
| Input tokens | $0.50 / 1M |
| Output tokens | $1.5 / 1M |
| Context window | — |
What that means per month
| Workload | Tokens / month | Cost / month |
|---|---|---|
| Prototype | 1M in · 0.3M out | $0.95/mo |
| Small app | 10M in · 3M out | $9.50/mo |
| Production app | 50M in · 15M out | $47.5/mo |
| High volume | 200M in · 60M out | $190/mo |
| Heavy platform | 1B in · 300M out | $950/mo |
Standard on-demand rates from Mistral's official pricing page, last checked 2026-07-16. Despite the name, Large 3 is priced below Medium 3.5 — it is Mistral's open-weight line; Medium 3.5 is the premium API model. Monthly figures exclude caching and batch discounts. Confirm live pricing before committing.
Cheaper alternatives
At a reference workload of 10M input / 3M output tokens a month, these cost less than Mistral Large 3 ($9.50/mo):
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Qwen-Plus $7.60/mo -
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite $7/mo -
DeepSeek V4 Pro $6.96/mo