Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1
Mistral Medium 3.1 adds vision capability to Mistral's mid-tier lineup but benchmarks show limited reasoning and coding performance relative to its price — suitable for lighter multimodal tasks but outclassed by stronger models at similar or lower cost.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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Mistral Medium 3.1 is an updated version of Mistral Medium 3, which is a high-performance enterprise-grade language model designed to deliver frontier-level capabilities at significantly reduced operational cost. It balances state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal performance with 8× lower cost compared to traditional large models, making it suitable for scalable deployments across professional and industrial use cases. The model excels in domains such as coding, STEM reasoning, and enterprise adaptation. It supports hybrid, on-prem, and in-VPC deployments and is optimized for integration into custom workflows. Mistral Medium 3.1 offers competitive accuracy relative to larger models like Claude Sonnet 3.5/3.7, Llama 4 Maverick, and Command R+, while maintaining broad compatibility across cloud environments.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Mistral |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.40 | $0.000400 |
| Output | $2.00 | $0.002000 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
