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Mistral Large 3

Mistral AI · · 306 days after Mistral Small 3

Partially verified

1 of 3 published values traced to a source1 primary source, 2 archived

Why this status

Split from the former "mistral-3" record, which was named for the family while holding one variant's figures. Evidence: "Mistral Large 3 – our most capable model to date – a sparse mixture-of-experts trained with 41B active and 675B total parameters." Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: multilingual: “Introducing Mistral 3 | Mistral AI Products Solutions Research Resources Pricing Company Try AI Studio Talk to sales Mistral 3 Mistral 3 Mistral 3 Mistral 3 Mistral 3 Mis”.

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Mistral's most capable model, a sparse mixture-of-experts under Apache 2.0.

visionmultilingualopen-weightsmultimodallong-context

Details

ReleasedDecember 2, 2025
CompanyMistral AI
FamilyMistral
Lineageafter Mistral Large 2 · before Mistral Large 4
Released alongsideMinistral 3 14B · Ministral 3 3B · Ministral 3 8B
EraReasoning models
TypeLanguage model · LLM
ModalitiesText + Image → Text
CapabilitiesVision, Multilingual
WeightsOpen weights
LicenceApache-2.0
Context window256K tokens
Parameters675B
stated in mistral.ai

Mistral Large 3 has 675,000,000,000 parameters.

Current information, elsewhere

This record is a historical one: every figure above is traced to a dated primary source. For what is true today — live pricing, current rankings, availability — these are better maintained than anything here could be.

Sources

Record status: partly verified · confidence 60/100 · 1 of 2 primary

Split from the former "mistral-3" record, which was named for the family while holding one variant's figures. Evidence: "Mistral Large 3 – our most capable model to date – a sparse mixture-of-experts trained with 41B active and 675B total parameters." Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: multilingual: “Introducing Mistral 3 | Mistral AI Products Solutions Research Resources Pricing Company Try AI Studio Talk to sales Mistral 3 Mistral 3 Mistral 3 Mistral 3 Mistral 3 Mis”.

Primary means published by the organisation that made the model. Verified records require at least one.

Mistral family

  1. Mistral 7B September 27, 2023
  2. Mistral Large 2 July 24, 2024
  3. Mistral Small 3 January 30, 2025
  4. Mistral Large 3 December 2, 2025
  5. Ministral 3 3B December 2, 2025
  6. Ministral 3 8B December 2, 2025
  7. Ministral 3 14B December 2, 2025
  8. Mistral Small 4 March 16, 2026
  9. Mistral Medium 3.5 May 22, 2026
  10. Shieldstral 1.0 3B August 4, 2026
  11. Mistral Large 4 October 6, 2026

What changed from Mistral Large 2

Compared with the previous release in this series. A field appears only when both records state a value — where one does not, it is listed as uncomparable rather than dropped, because a gap in our research is not a finding about the model.

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