Mistral Large 2 vs Mistral Medium 3
Compare Mistral Large 2 and Mistral Medium 3, both from Mistral AI, context windows of 128K vs 131K, tested across 23 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Mistral Large 2
Mistral Medium 3
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Mistral Medium 3 is 12x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Large 2
Input
$8.00
Output
$24.00
Mistral Medium 3
Input
$0.40
20× cheaper
Output
$2.00
12× cheaper
Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper on both — 20× input, 12× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
78%
Mistral Medium 3 uses 15.3x more transitions
Mistral Large 2
Mistral Medium 3
43%Vocabulary57%
21wSentence Length17w
0.39Hedging0.73
14.4Bold8.6
7.4Lists6.5
0.80Emoji0.06
1.41Headings1.18
0.01Transitions0.15
Based on 10 + 15 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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