Mistral Large
Analysis Summary
Mistral Large is a 2024 flagship from Mistral AI, supporting tool use, function calling, and file input with a 128K context window. Its benchmark scores place it in the lower tier of the current field, with modest reasoning and coding performance relative to models available today.
For businesses, it can handle general-purpose text tasks, structured output generation, and basic tool-use workflows. The file input modality adds some utility for document-based tasks. However, at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens, the price-to-performance ratio is unfavourable compared to newer alternatives that offer stronger benchmarks at similar or lower cost.
Teams already using Mistral's infrastructure may find it a reasonable fit for mid-complexity tasks, but for new deployments, more capable models are available at comparable or lower cost. It is best treated as a legacy option within the Mistral family rather than a primary choice.
Assessed June 30, 2026
Editorial notes
Mistral Large offers tool use and function calling with a 128K context window, but its benchmark performance is limited by current standards and pricing is relatively high for what it delivers.
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Performance Profile
How Mistral Large compares
Mistral Large ranks #325 of 385 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 128K-token context window is larger than 43% of the models we list. At $2.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 17% of comparable models.
About Mistral Large
This is Mistral AI's flagship model, Mistral Large 2 (version mistral-large-2407). It's a proprietary weights-available model and excels at reasoning, code, JSON, chat, and more...
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Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.00 | $0.002000 |
| Output | $6.00 | $0.006000 |
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Frequently asked questions about Mistral Large
How much does Mistral Large cost?
Mistral Large costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Mistral Large?
Mistral Large has a context window of 128,000 tokens (128K).
What can Mistral Large do?
Mistral Large supports tool use and function calling.
Who created Mistral Large?
Mistral Large is developed by Mistral AI and was released on February 26, 2024.
