MistralProprietaryReasoningCoding
Mistral Large
Mistral’s flagship large model for enterprise reasoning, multilingual chat, and function calling via La Plateforme and cloud partners.
Tool calling · Coding
Last reviewed: 16 August 2026
Overview
Mistral’s flagship large model for enterprise reasoning, multilingual chat, and function calling via La Plateforme and cloud partners.
Capabilities
- Vision: No
- Audio: No
- Tool calling: Yes
- Thinking: No
- MCP: No
- Coding: Yes
- Structured output: Yes
Technical specifications
- Provider
- Mistral
- License
- Proprietary (API); select open siblings
- Context window
- 128K
- Release
- 2024
- Modalities
- Text
- Vision
- No
- Audio
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Thinking
- No
- MCP
- No
- Open weights
- No
- API
- Yes
- Pricing (input)
- ~$0.50 per 1M tokens (mistral-large-latest / Large 3)
- Pricing (output)
- ~$1.50 per 1M tokens
Supported modalities
Text
Context window
128K (128,000 tokens)
Pricing
Input: ~$0.50 per 1M tokens (mistral-large-latest / Large 3)
Output: ~$1.50 per 1M tokens
Verify https://mistral.ai/pricing/api/. Regional Endpoints GA (EU or US processing) as of 2026-08-11.
Availability
API: Yes
Chat UI: Yes
Open weights: No
Also via Azure and other partners. Mistral Regional Endpoints let you pin inference to Europe or the US.
Use cases
- Enterprise multilingual assistants
- Function-calling agents
- European data-residency friendly stacks
- Coding copilots
Strengths
- Strong European enterprise positioning
- Solid tool use and JSON modes
- Competitive API pricing
Limitations
- Less multimodal than Gemini / GPT vision tiers
- Closed flagship weights
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