Mistral: Mistral Medium 3
Analysis Summary
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #155 of 523 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.400 input and $2.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports tool use, function calling, and vision.
Editorial notes
Mistral Medium 3 from Mistral AI offers a solid mid-tier option with tool use, function calling, and vision support across a 131K context window at competitive pricing. Benchmark scores are modest but respectable for a mid-range model, and Mistral's Western-market focus and API reliability make it a practical choice for content and tool-use workflows.
Assessed April 16, 2026
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Performance Profile
Mistral Medium 3 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 8Ć lower cost..
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Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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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
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