Mistral Large 3 2512 API Pricing
Mistral · Budget · Mistral · released 2025-12. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Mistral Large 3 2512 has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 131st cheapest of 142 Budget models. Only one host, Mistral, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.50 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.50 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): $0.25 / $0.75
- Prompt-cache read: $0.05
- Context window: 262K
Mistral Large 3 2512 market position
On blended price ($1.20 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 8% of Budget models: 131st cheapest of 142. Across every category it is cheaper than 54% of priced text models in the catalogue: 131st cheapest of 281.
Mistral Large 3 2512 licence, size and capabilities
Mistral Large 3 2512 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 41B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Code, Agents. Filling its 262K context window once costs $0.13 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 | $110 – $150 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $157 – $220 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $320 – $680 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $373 – $395 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $383 – $450 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $74 – $165 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $99 – $205 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $561 – $750 |
Mistral Large 3 2512 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, $0.50 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens, which is the price shown on this page.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral (the price shown above) | $0.50 | $1.50 |
Mistral Large 3 2512 price history
Mistral Large 3 2512 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.50 input / $1.50 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 3 2512
- Next cheaper Budget model: Aion 3.5 Mini (aion-labs) at $1.19 blended, 1% less.
- Next more expensive: GPT-4.1 Mini (OpenAI) at $1.24 blended, 3% more.
Common questions about Mistral Large 3 2512 pricing
- 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 on the API.
- Does Mistral Large 3 2512 offer batch or cached pricing?
- Yes. Batch API pricing is $0.25/M input and $0.75/M output. Prompt-cache reads cost $0.05/M.
- What would Mistral Large 3 2512 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Mistral Large 3 2512 costs about $150 at list prices.
- Has the price of Mistral Large 3 2512 changed?
- Mistral Large 3 2512 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.50 input / $1.50 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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