Mistral Medium 3 at a glance
Mistral Medium 3 targeted near-frontier performance at $0.40 input and $2 output per million tokens, with self-hosting possible on four or more GPUs.
What changed with Mistral Medium 3
On May 7, 2025, Mistral AI launched Mistral Medium 3, a proprietary model aimed at professional and enterprise work. Mistral said it performs at or above 90% of Claude Sonnet 3.7 across its benchmarks at a much lower price, and that it surpasses open models such as Llama 4 Maverick.
Launch pricing was $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens. The API opened on Mistral La Plateforme and Amazon SageMaker, with more clouds announced, and Mistral offered deployment in customers' own environments on four GPUs or more, plus custom post-training and integration with enterprise tools.
Mistral Medium 3 benchmarks and pricing
Values are copied from the linked source on the date shown. They are not IA Compa measurements.
- Input price per 1M tokensas of · Source for Input price per 1M tokens: mistral.ai (opens in a new tab)
- $0.40
- Output price per 1M tokensas of · Source for Output price per 1M tokens: mistral.ai (opens in a new tab)
- $2.00
How it compares
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Where to compare Mistral Medium 3
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Why Mistral Medium 3 matters for businesses
For businesses, Medium 3 was a capable mid-price option with a European provider and a path to private deployment, useful when data sovereignty or predictable cost matters more than having the absolute top model.
Sources for this story
- Medium is the new large (opens in a new tab)Official
Mistral AI · mistral.ai
- Mistral Medium 3 model page (opens in a new tab)Benchmark
Artificial Analysis · artificialanalysis.ai
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