Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512

Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512

mistralai · Released Dec 1, 2025 Efficient
Intelligence #189 / 544
42.6 Our Score
Speed #227 / 252
38.2 tokens / sec
Input #357 / 544
$0.500 per 1M tokens
Output #336 / 544
$1.50 per 1M tokens
Context #89 / 544
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #189 of 544 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.500 input and $1.50 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, and vision.

Editorial notes

Mistral Large 3 2512 benchmarks well below its name suggests, with a low intelligence index and weak math and coding scores; vision and tool use are present but overall capability is limited.

Assessed May 5, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence3.2Technical2.6Value7.5Content3
Intelligence 3.2/10
Technical 2.6/10
Content 3/10
Value 7.5/10

Mistral Large 3 2512 is Mistral’s most capable model to date, featuring a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with 41B active parameters (675B total), and released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

15.1 Intelligence Index
13.8 Coding Index
18.4 Agentic Index
14 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 48.6% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 4% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 69.7% Multi-task language understanding
MATH 500 73.6% Mathematical problem-solving
AIME 11% Competition mathematics
AIME 2025 14% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 29.2% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 29.3% Live coding evaluation
TerminalBench Hard 6.1% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 30.7% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 31.2% Instruction following
LCR 5.3% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID mistralai/mistral-large-2512
Providermistralai
Model FamilyMistral
Release Date December 1, 2025
Context Length262,144 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.50 $0.000500
Output $1.50 $0.001500

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

99.9%
Avg Uptime
544ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
32 tok/s
Best Throughput
1/1
Active Endpoints
Available via: Mistral

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