vs
5:3
overall capability wins (0 ties across 8 scored). Ministral 3 14B leads overall.
- Reasoning3:1
- Coding0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs2:1
Verdict
Mistral Large 2 leads coding (widest gap: +5.4 on SciCode); Ministral 3 14B edges reasoning & knowledge; Ministral 3 14B offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K).
- Mistral Large 2 leads coding (widest gap: +5.4 on SciCode)
- Ministral 3 14B edges reasoning & knowledge
- Ministral 3 14B offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Ministral 3 14B allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K)
- Ministral 3 14B ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
- Ministral 3 14B is ~15.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Large 2
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Ministral 3 14B
- $0.25
- Mistral Large 2
- $3.50
Ministral 3 14B is about 14.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Apache 2.0
Mistral Research / Proprietary API
Open weights
Yes
No
Release
Dec 1, 2025
Jul 24, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text, image → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
256K
128K
Max output
33K
8K
Parameters
14B
123B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.20
$2
Output $/1M
$0.20
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.20
$3
Speed
tok/s
130
65
TTFT (s)
0.2
0.45
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
69.3
—
GPQA Diamond
57.2
48.6
Humanity's Last Exam
4.6
3.3
AIME 2025
30.0
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
13.6
19.9
AA-LCR v1.1
26.3
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
49.8
—
IFBench
32.0
31.2
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
35.1
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
9.7
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
23.8
29.2
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Ministral 3 14B | Mistral Large 2 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Mistral Research / Proprietary API | — |
| Open weights | Yes | No | — |
| Release | Dec 1, 2025 | Jul 24, 2024 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 128K | A +128K |
| Max output | 33K | 8K | A +25K |
| Parameters | 14B | 123B | B +109 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.20 | $2 | A +$1.80 |
| Output $/1M | $0.20 | $6 | A +$5.80 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.20 | $3 | A +$2.80 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 130 | 65 | A +65 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.2 | 0.45 | A +0.25 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 69.3 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2 | 48.6 | A +8.6 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6 | 3.3 | A +1.3 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 30.0 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 13.6 | 19.9 | B +6.3 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 26.3 | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 49.8 | — | — |
| IFBench | 32.0 | 31.2 | A +0.8 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 35.1 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 9.7 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 23.8 | 29.2 | B +5.4 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Ministral 3 14B
- Context
- 256K / 33K out
- Parameters
- 14B
- Price
- $0.20 / $0.20
- Speed
- 130 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Largest Ministral 3 edge multimodal model with symmetric $0.20/$0.20 pricing.
Mistral Large 2
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 123B
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- 65 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Mistral Research / Proprietary API
123B flagship before Large 3 — EU-hosted frontier option with strong multilingual coding.
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