Mistral Large 3 vs Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5

Side-by-side comparison. Updated 2026-06-07.

Verdict

Tie — both models score equally.

Both models score equally. Pick based on which strengths align with your workload.

Mistral Large 3
by Mistral AI
8.3 /10 Excellent
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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
by Mistral AI
8.3 /10 Excellent
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At a Glance

Side-by-side comparison of Mistral Large 3 and Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
Attribute Mistral Large 3 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
Provider Mistral AI Mistral AI
Tags general Intelligent Coding Agentic
Context 128,000 tokens 262,144 tokens
Input price $2.00/1M $1.50/1M
Output price $7.50/1M $7.50/1M
Input modalities Text Text, Image, File
Output modalities Text Text

Mistral Large 3 Strengths

  • Excellent multilingual
  • Strong coding
  • Good reasoning
  • European data sovereignty focus

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 Strengths

  • Dense 128B architecture for consistent quality
  • Strong instruction following
  • Good agentic and coding performance
  • Supports image+text inputs