Mistral Large API Pricing
Mistral · Mid-tier · Mistral · released 2024-02. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Deprecated. The vendor has announced retirement of this model's API · shutdown 2026-02-27 · suggested replacement: Mistral Medium 3.5. It still carries a price because resellers still serve it; treat it as a model to migrate off, not one to start on.
Mistral Large has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 69th cheapest of 108 Mid-tier models. Only one host, Mistral, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. The vendor has announced its retirement, so it is a model to migrate off rather than start on.
- Input: $2.00 per 1M tokens
- Output: $6.00 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.20
- Context window: 128K
- Arena ELO: 1413 (as of 2026-09-25)
- Available on: Direct API, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, OpenRouter (curated by hand, verify with the provider)
- AWS Bedrock regions: ap-northeast-1, eu-west-1, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Mistral Large market position
On blended price ($4.80 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 31% of Mid-tier models: 69th cheapest of 108, tied with 6 others. Across every category it is cheaper than 23% of priced text models in the catalogue: 211th cheapest of 281, tied with 6 others. Its Arena ELO of 1413 ranks 47th of the 68 models that carry one, above 31% of them.
Mistral Large licence, size and capabilities
Mistral Large is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Mistral, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially. Its published size is 675B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Code, Agents. Filling its 128K context window once costs $0.26 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $438 – $600 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $628 – $880 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $2.5K – $2.7K |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $1.5K – $1.6K |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $1.5K – $1.8K |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $579 – $660 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $784 – $820 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $2.2K – $3.0K |
Mistral Large pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 1 host. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
Mistral is the only host with a published rate, $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens, which is the price shown on this page.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral (the price shown above) | $2.00 | $6.00 |
Mistral Large price history
Mistral Large has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to Mistral Large
- Next cheaper Mid-tier model: Palmyra X5 (Writer) at $4.38 blended, 9% less.
- Next more expensive: Aion 3.5 (aion-labs) at $5.10 blended, 6% more.
The nearest Mid-tier models on Arena ELO, each with its blended price and score difference against Mistral Large.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) — $1.00 in / $5.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1414: 21% cheaper, 1 ELO point higher
- GPT-4.1 (OpenAI) — $2.00 in / $8.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1415: 29% more expensive, 2 ELO points higher
- Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (Alibaba) — $0.26 in / $2.08 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1416: 68% cheaper, 3 ELO points higher
- Kimi K2 0711 (Moonshot) — $0.57 in / $2.30 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1419: 63% cheaper, 6 ELO points higher
- Cheapest within 15 Arena points: DeepSeek V3.2 (DeepSeek), 92% cheaper, 12 ELO points higher, out of 9 models in that band.
- Highest Arena ELO within 20% of this price: Grok 4.5 (xAI), same blended price, 52 ELO points higher, out of 3 models in that price band.
Common questions about Mistral Large pricing
- How much does Mistral Large cost?
- Mistral Large costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Mistral Large offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $0.20/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would Mistral Large cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Mistral Large costs about $600 at list prices.
- Has the price of Mistral Large changed?
- Mistral Large has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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