Mistral Medium 3 vs Llama 4 Maverick
Compare Mistral Medium 3 by Mistral AI against Llama 4 Maverick by Meta AI, in 5 community votes, mistral medium 3 wins 75% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 131K vs 1.0M, tested across 26 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, Mistral Medium 3 or Llama 4 Maverick?
Mistral Medium 3 is the better choice overall, winning 75% of 5 blind community votes on Rival. Mistral Medium 3 costs $0.4/M input tokens vs $1.5/M for Llama 4 Maverick. Context windows: 131K vs 1000K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Mistral Medium 3 and Llama 4 Maverick
Mistral Medium 3 is made by mistral while Llama 4 Maverick is from meta. Mistral Medium 3 has a 131K token context window compared to Llama 4 Maverick's 1000K. On pricing, Mistral Medium 3 costs $0.4/M input tokens vs $1.5/M for Llama 4 Maverick. 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.
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
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