Mistral Large 3 2512
Where it stands
Quality in independent tests against price, next to 135 other models. Up means more capable, left means cheaper.
About this model
Mistral Large 3 2512 is an AI model from Mistral AI, made available through the API on December 1, 2025. It can read up to 262,144 tokens in one request, roughly 492 pages of text, and write up to 209,715 tokens in a single answer. Besides text, it accepts images and files such as PDFs as input.
Through the API it costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. Its pricing sits in the middle of the market.
It can call tools and functions, so developers can connect it to search, databases or other software.
Quality scores
Rankings →- GPQA DiamondVery hard multiple-choice questions in biology, physics and chemistry, written by PhD experts. Random guessing scores 25%.51.3%#93 of 116
- AIME mathCompetition-level math problems in the style of the American Invitational Mathematics Examination. Share solved.8.5%#96 of 112
Where to use it
Companies that serve this model through an API: 2. Prices per million tokens, cheapest first.
| Provider | Inputi | Outputi | Contexti | Uptime (24 h)i |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MistralOfficialCheapest | $0.50 | $1.50 | 256K | 99.9% |
MistralOfficial | $0.55 | $1.65 | 256K | 100.0% |
Availability and prices come from OpenRouter’s public API and are refreshed daily. Uptime is the share of successful requests over the last 24 hours. Some providers run a compressed version of open models (fp8, int4), which is cheaper but can be slightly less accurate.
Use it in your code
Call Mistral Large 3 2512 through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API: create a key on openrouter.ai, then run one of these examples.
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "mistralai/mistral-large-2512", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}]}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistralai/mistral-large-2512",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY });
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "mistralai/mistral-large-2512",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! What can you do?" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);The same code works with every model on this site: only the model ID changes. Many labs also offer their own API and SDK.
What it costs in practice
- 1,000 chat replies$0.70
- Summarise a 100-page document$0.027
- An app with 10,000 requests a day for a month$330
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See all →Frequently asked questions
- How much does Mistral Large 3 2512 cost?
- Mistral Large 3 2512 costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens through the API. For example, 1,000 chat replies of about 500 tokens in and 300 out cost around $0.70.
- What is the context window of Mistral Large 3 2512?
- Mistral Large 3 2512 can read up to 262,144 tokens in one request, about 492 pages of text. It can write up to 209,715 tokens in a single answer.
- Is Mistral Large 3 2512 open source?
- No. Mistral Large 3 2512 is a closed model: its weights are not published, so you use it through Mistral AI’s own apps and API, or through cloud providers.
- Who makes Mistral Large 3 2512?
- Mistral Large 3 2512 is made by Mistral AI. It became available through the API on December 1, 2025.
- How good is Mistral Large 3 2512?
- Mistral Large 3 2512 has an overall index of 122.0 in Epoch AI’s independent tests, ranking #126 of 136 models we track.
- Can Mistral Large 3 2512 read images?
- Yes. Besides text, it accepts images and files such as PDFs as input.
- What are the alternatives to Mistral Large 3 2512?
- Models with a similar price from other companies include Seed 2.1 Turbo, Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Qwen3.5 397B A17B. You can compare them side by side on this page.