Mistral Large 3 2512

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.

by Mistral

Overview

Quick stats across all benchmark runs.

Score

29%

66 benchmarks

Avg Latency

17.6s

418 requests

Pricing

$0.50 in / $1.50 out

per 1M tokens

Context

262K

tokens

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Benchmark Performance

How this model performs across different benchmarks

Benchmark	Score	Rank
Venture Capital Terms Benchmark	100%	1 / 21
Explain Like I'm 5	98%	6 / 47
Spatial Reasoning: Germany	90%	18 / 29
Character Frequency Bench	90%	13 / 29
Niederstetten Benchmark	68%	9 / 35
Money Boy Cultural Literacy Test	49%	37 / 107
German Memelord Bench	31%	16 / 29
Categorization Bench	23%	48 / 54

Price vs Performance

Compare cost efficiency across all models

Current model (baseline)

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Y-axis shows score difference from shared benchmarks. X-axis uses log scale.

Score Over Time

Performance trends across all benchmark runs

Benchmark Activity

Number of benchmark runs over time

Quickstart

View on OpenRouter

Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "mistralai/mistral-large-2512",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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Other Models from Mistral

Compare performance with other models from the same creator

Model	Latency	Cost/1M	Score
Ministral 3 14B 2512	13.3s	$0.20	21%
Ministral 3 3B 2512	6.5s	$0.10	5%
Ministral 3 8B 2512	7.5s	$0.15	4%
Saba	8.7s	$0.40	—
Voxtral Small 24B 2507	4.3s	$0.20	—
Devstral Small 2505	—	$0.09	—
Devstral Medium	5.0s	$1.20	—
Codestral 2508	3.9s	$0.60	—
Mistral 7B Instruct	—	Free	—
Pixtral Large 2411	22.5s	$4.00	—
Mistral Large 2411	15.7s	$4.00	—
Mistral Large 2407	21.8s	$4.00	—
Mistral Medium 3.1	11.5s	$1.20	—
Mistral Nemo	6.7s	$0.02	—
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct	8.3s	$4.00	—
Mistral Large	22.3s	$4.00	—
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1	41.8s	$0.15	—
Mistral Medium 3	10.7s	$1.20	—
Mistral Medium 3.5	—	$4.50	—
Mistral Small 3.1 24B	17.6s	$0.45	—
Mistral Small Creative	7.5s	$0.20	—
Mistral Small 3.2 24B	14.1s	$0.14	—
Mistral Small 3	15.8s	$0.07	—
Devstral Small 1.1	3.0s	$0.20	—
Ministral 8B	36.3s	$0.10	—
Ministral 3B	2.4s	$0.04	—
Pixtral 12B	7.6s	$0.10	—
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3	3.7s	$0.20	—
Mistral Tiny	5.4s	$0.25	—
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2	4.1s	$0.20	—
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct	9.0s	$0.54	—
Devstral 2 2512	13.7s	$1.20	—
Mistral Small 4	1.1s	$0.38	—