Mistral Large 3 2512
Mistral AI · released Dec 1, 2025
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- $0.50
- Output
- $1.50
- Cached
- $0.050
List price · per 1M tokens · Mistral AI at 262K context · source ↗
Our take
Written Sep 17, 2026Mistral Large 3 2512 is a hosted-only model: we list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host. Its quality is measured only by human preference votes, and coding prompts are its strongest measured category while web-app building is its weakest.
Use it for hosted chat, document and image work where you want a strong preference rating on coding prompts and do not need to run the model yourself, or for long documents that would otherwise need splitting. Skip it if you need to download and run the model on your own machine, or if you need measured accuracy on a task rather than human preference.
The case for it
- Coding prompts are its strongest measured category on the preference boards, though that records which answers people preferred rather than whether the code was correct.
- The request capacity holds a long report or a stack of documents beside the question, though reliable recall across all of it is unverified in our data.
- Text, images and files go into the same request, so a screenshot or a document does not have to be described in words first.
The case against it
- We list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host.
- Every score we hold is a preference rating, which records which answer people preferred rather than whether it was correct.
- Web-app building is its weakest measured category, so building an app from a prompt is the job it looks least suited to.
How good is it?
EverydayGeneral questions and everyday reasoning
Arena Text (overall)88th of 168 · 1413
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding76th of 168 · 1469
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Not yet scored on Arena Agent.
WritingDrafting and rewriting prose
Arena Creative Writing87th of 168 · 1373
Arena Creative Writing is the only board that has scored it for this.
These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done.
Every published score for this model7 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 7 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 4 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
Mistral AI, through OpenRouter
The lab is also the cheapest we hold. The strip above and this offer are the same one, so nothing on this page undercuts Mistral AI on 262K of context.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.50 in / $1.50 out
- Context served
- 262K
- Throughput
- ~6 tok/s
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.50 / $1.50checked 4 hours ago | 262K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Mistral AIThrough OpenRouter | $0.50 / $1.50checked 4 hours ago | 262K210K max reply | 6 tok/s | No | Yes30 days | Confirmed |
| Mistral AIeuThrough OpenRouter | $0.55 / $1.65checked 4 hours ago | 262K210K max reply | 4 tok/s | No | Yes30 days | Confirmed |
OpenRouterAcross the 3 listings we hold: 2 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 2 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mistral AIThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mistral AIeuThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 3 of 3 listings say yes. JSON output: 3 of 3 listings say yes. Strict schema: 3 of 3 listings say yes.
Models people weigh against Mistral Large 3 2512
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 3 listings does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text, images and documents in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- mistralai-mistral-large-3-2512