Mistral: Mistral Large 4

mistralai · Released Oct 6, 2026 NEW
DFO score #696 / 722
4.5 leaderboard score
Speed
77 tok/s · best OpenRouter provider
Input Price #587 / 722
$1.36 per 1M tokens
Output Price #568 / 722
$4.18 per 1M tokens
Context #37 / 722
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Mistral: Mistral Large 4 is Mistral’s entry in the Mistral line-up. Released in October 2026, it is one of the newest models we cover. We place it in the Emerging tier, where it sits at #689 of 722 models overall.

Its 1M-token context window is larger than 95% of the models we list, suiting long documents, large codebases, and retrieval-heavy workloads. Crucially for business adoption, Mistral: Mistral Large 4 combines tool use, function calling, vision input, and step-by-step reasoning in a single model, letting teams consolidate several use cases instead of stitching together multiple services.

At $1.36 input and $4.18 output per 1M tokens, Mistral: Mistral Large 4 is mid-market priced. Mistral: Mistral Large 4 is worth evaluating where Mistral’s ecosystem and the model’s specific capabilities fit your workflow.

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DFO Verdict

Mistral: Mistral Large 4 currently sits at #696 of 722 models on our board. We class it as a emerging-tier model.

#696 of 722 overall Down 4 this week

How Mistral: Mistral Large 4 compares

Its 1M-token context window is larger than 95% of the models we list. At $1.36 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 19% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 5% of models #689
Price: cheaper than 19% of models #587
Context: larger than 95% of models #37
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Mistral: Mistral Large 4 $1.36 in $4.18 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out
Google: Gemini 4 Argon $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $1.36 $0.001360
Output $4.18 $0.004180

What would Mistral: Mistral Large 4 cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$7.94/mo Mistral: Mistral Large 4 $0.0026 per request
$31.68/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $0.01 per request
$15.84/mo Google: Gemini 4 Argon · best value $0.0053 per request

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About Mistral: Mistral Large 4

Mistral Large 4 is a frontier multimodal (text and image input) model from Mistral AI built for reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads. It offers a 1M-token context window with up..

Frequently asked questions about Mistral: Mistral Large 4

How much does Mistral: Mistral Large 4 cost?

Mistral: Mistral Large 4 costs $1.36 per million input tokens and $4.18 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Mistral: Mistral Large 4?

Mistral: Mistral Large 4 has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).

What can Mistral: Mistral Large 4 do?

Mistral: Mistral Large 4 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Mistral: Mistral Large 4?

Mistral: Mistral Large 4 is developed by Mistral and was released on October 6, 2026.

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