vs
1:13
overall capability wins (1 ties across 15 scored). Mistral Large 3 leads overall.
- Reasoning1:7
- Coding0:3
- Tool use0:1
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Mistral Large 3 leads coding (widest gap: +16.2 on LiveCode); Mistral Large 3 allows ~2.0x more max output (64K vs 33K); Ministral 3 8B is ~20.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Large 3.
- Mistral Large 3 leads coding (widest gap: +16.2 on LiveCode)
- Mistral Large 3 allows ~2.0x more max output (64K vs 33K)
- Ministral 3 8B is ~20.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Large 3
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Ministral 3 8B
- $0.19
- Mistral Large 3
- $3.50
Ministral 3 8B is about 18.7x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Apache 2.0
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Dec 1, 2025
Nov 19, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
256K
256K
Max output
33K
64K
Parameters
8B
675B (41B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.15
$2
Output $/1M
$0.15
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.15
$3
Speed
tok/s
150
70
TTFT (s)
0.18
0.45
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
64.2
80.7
GPQA Diamond
47.1
68.0
Humanity's Last Exam
4.3
4.2
AIME 2025
31.7
38.0
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
13.0
25.0
AA-LCR v1.1
25.7
36.0
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
46.0
55.7
IFBench
29.1
36.2
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
30.3
46.5
Terminal-Bench 2.1
4.1
12.0
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
20.7
36.6
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,230
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,413
| Metric | Ministral 3 8B | Mistral Large 3 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Dec 1, 2025 | Nov 19, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 256K | tie |
| Max output | 33K | 64K | B +31K |
| Parameters | 8B | 675B (41B act.) | B +667 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.15 | $2 | A +$1.85 |
| Output $/1M | $0.15 | $6 | A +$5.85 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.15 | $3 | A +$2.85 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 150 | 70 | A +80 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.18 | 0.45 | A +0.27 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 64.2 | 80.7 | B +16.5 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.1 | 68.0 | B +20.9 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.3 | 4.2 | A +0.1 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 31.7 | 38.0 | B +6.3 pts |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 13.0 | 25.0 | B +12.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 25.7 | 36.0 | B +10.3 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 46.0 | 55.7 | B +9.7 pts |
| IFBench | 29.1 | 36.2 | B +7.1 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 30.3 | 46.5 | B +16.2 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 4.1 | 12.0 | B +7.9 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 20.7 | 36.6 | B +15.9 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,230 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,413 | — |
Ministral 3 8B
- Context
- 256K / 33K out
- Parameters
- 8B
- Price
- $0.15 / $0.15
- Speed
- 150 tok/s · 0.18s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Efficient Ministral 3 vision-capable edge model with symmetric token pricing.
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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