Mistral Large vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Compare Mistral Large and Mistral Medium 3.1, both from Mistral AI, in 15 community votes, mistral medium 3.1 wins 62% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 32K vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Web Design: Mistral Medium 3.1 wins 88% of votes
Reasoning: Mistral Large wins 80% of votes
Our Verdict
Mistral Medium 3.1Winner
Mistral LargeRunner-up
Pick Mistral Medium 3.1. In 15 blind votes, Mistral Medium 3.1 wins 62% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick Mistral Large for Reasoning. Pick Mistral Medium 3.1 for Web Design. Mistral Medium 3.1 is 12x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Large
Input
$8.00
Output
$24.00
Mistral Medium 3.1
Input
$0.40
20× cheaper
Output
$2.00
12× cheaper
Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper on both — 20× input, 12× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
83%
Mistral Large uses 1.9x more hedging
Mistral Large
Mistral Medium 3.1
49%Vocabulary52%
19wSentence Length22w
0.86Hedging0.45
8.9Bold10.4
5.4Lists5.9
0.31Emoji0.39
1.01Headings1.12
0.10Transitions0.18
Based on 16 + 22 text responses
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