Llama 4 Maverick vs Mistral Medium 3
Compare Llama 4 Maverick by Meta AI against Mistral Medium 3 by Mistral AI, in 5 community votes, mistral medium 3 wins 75% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 131K, tested across 53 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Medium 3?
Mistral Medium 3 is the better choice overall, winning 75% of 5 blind community votes on Rival. Llama 4 Maverick costs $1.5/M input tokens vs $0.4/M for Mistral Medium 3. Context windows: 1000K vs 131K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3
Llama 4 Maverick is made by meta while Mistral Medium 3 is from mistral. Llama 4 Maverick has a 1000K token context window compared to Mistral Medium 3's 131K. On pricing, Llama 4 Maverick costs $1.5/M input tokens vs $0.4/M for Mistral Medium 3. In community voting, In 5 community votes, Mistral Medium 3 wins 75% of head-to-head duels.
In 5 community votes, Mistral Medium 3 wins 75% of head-to-head duels. Mistral Medium 3 leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 5+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper on both — 3.8× input, 1.3× output
Pick Mistral Medium 3. In 5 blind votes, Mistral Medium 3 wins 75% of the time. That's not luck.
Mistral Medium 3 particularly excels in Image Generation.
Style Comparison
Mistral Medium 3 uses 6.0x more emoji
