vs
5:11
overall capability wins (0 ties across 16 scored). Mistral Large 3 leads overall.
- Reasoning4:4
- Coding0:3
- Arena0:1
- Tool use0:1
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs1:2
Verdict
Mistral Large 3 leads coding (widest gap: +4.9 on SciCode); Mistral Large 3 ranks higher on LMArena (+86 Elo); Llama 4 Maverick offers ~3.9x larger context (1M vs 256K).
- Mistral Large 3 leads coding (widest gap: +4.9 on SciCode)
- Mistral Large 3 ranks higher on LMArena (+86 Elo)
- Llama 4 Maverick offers ~3.9x larger context (1M vs 256K)
- Mistral Large 3 allows ~2.0x more max output (64K vs 33K)
- Llama 4 Maverick is ~7.2x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Large 3
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Llama 4 Maverick
- $0.48
- Mistral Large 3
- $3.50
Llama 4 Maverick is about 7.3x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Meta
Mistral
Family
Llama / Muse
Mistral
License
Llama 4 Community
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Apr 5, 2025
Nov 19, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Mistral
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
1M
256K
Max output
33K
64K
Parameters
400B (17B act.)
675B (41B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.27
$2
Output $/1M
$0.85
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.42
$3
Speed
tok/s
95
70
TTFT (s)
0.35
0.45
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
80.5
80.7
GPQA Diamond
67.1
68.0
Humanity's Last Exam
4.9
4.2
AIME 2025
19.3
38.0
MATH-500
88.9
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
24.9
25.0
AA-LCR v1.1
50.0
36.0
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
62.1
55.7
IFBench
43.0
36.2
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
21.0
—
SWE-bench Pro
5.2
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
43.4
46.5
Terminal-Bench 2.1
7.9
12.0
Aider Polyglot
15.6
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
49.7
—
SciCode
31.7
36.6
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
11.0
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,230
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,327
1,413
| Metric | Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Large 3 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Meta | Mistral | — |
| Family | Llama / Muse | Mistral | — |
| License | Llama 4 Community | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Apr 5, 2025 | Nov 19, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 256K | A +744K |
| Max output | 33K | 64K | B +31K |
| Parameters | 400B (17B act.) | 675B (41B act.) | B +275 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.27 | $2 | A +$1.73 |
| Output $/1M | $0.85 | $6 | A +$5.15 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.42 | $3 | A +$2.58 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 95 | 70 | A +25 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.35 | 0.45 | A +0.10 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 80.5 | 80.7 | B +0.2 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 67.1 | 68.0 | B +0.9 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.9 | 4.2 | A +0.7 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 19.3 | 38.0 | B +18.7 pts |
| MATH-500 | 88.9 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 24.9 | 25.0 | B +0.1 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 50.0 | 36.0 | A +14.0 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 62.1 | 55.7 | A +6.4 pts |
| IFBench | 43.0 | 36.2 | A +6.8 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 21.0 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 5.2 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 43.4 | 46.5 | B +3.1 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 7.9 | 12.0 | B +4.1 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | 15.6 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 49.7 | — | — |
| SciCode | 31.7 | 36.6 | B +4.9 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 11.0 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,230 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,327 | 1,413 | B +86 Elo |
Llama 4 Maverick
- Context
- 1M / 33K out
- Parameters
- 400B (17B act.)
- Price
- $0.27 / $0.85
- Speed
- 95 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Llama 4 Community
Meta's open multimodal MoE flagship - 400B total / 17B active with 1M context.
Mistral Large 3
- Context
- 256K / 64K out
- Parameters
- 675B (41B act.)
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- 70 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Mistral's open Large 3 MoE - multilingual European frontier alternative under Apache 2.0.
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