Mistral Large vs Mistral Medium 3
Compare Mistral Large and Mistral Medium 3, both from Mistral AI, context windows of 32K vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Mistral Medium 3
Mistral LargeRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Mistral Medium 3 has the edge — newer, bigger context window.
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
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
74%
Mistral Large uses 5.1x more emoji
Mistral Large
Mistral Medium 3
49%Vocabulary57%
19wSentence Length17w
0.86Hedging0.73
8.9Bold8.6
5.4Lists6.5
0.31Emoji0.06
1.01Headings1.18
0.10Transitions0.15
Based on 16 + 15 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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