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Model Pareto

Mistral Large 4 vs Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 4 scores higher than Mistral Large 3 in both shared categories. Mistral Large 4 costs 2.8× as much as Mistral Large 3 ($2.06 vs $0.75 per million tokens, blended 3:1 input:output).
Mistral Large 4Mistral Large 3
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Coding: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 117 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Nex-N2.5-Mini, Nex-N2.5-Pro, MiMo-V2.6-Flash, Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Gemini 4 Argon, Claude Opus 5.5. 34 models are not plotted: GLM-5.3 Flash NVFP4, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash NVFP4, GLM-5.3 NVFP4, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813-nvfp4-DSpark, Xing4.0-29B-A4B, Ternary Bonsai 27B, Atria Dawn Preview, Maple-Preview, Bonsai 27B, Qwen3.8 27B NVFP4, Intern-S2-397B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, Solar Open2 250B, Laguna S 2.1, Motif 3, Nex-N2-Pro, K-EXAONE 2.0 0803, K2 Horizon 375B A23B, A.X-K2, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B, Intern-S2-Preview (35B-A3B), North Mini Code, G9v3-39A5B, Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct, Qwen3.8 Flash-Next NVFP4, Devstral 2, K2 Horizon 7B, K2-Horizon-32B, Devstral Small 2, MiniCPM5-2B, Ling 3.0 Tiny, K2 Horizon 3.7B, K2 Horizon 0.9B, LFM2.5-2.6B.

34 models with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

GLM-5.3 Flash NVFP4, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash NVFP4, GLM-5.3 NVFP4, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813-nvfp4-DSpark, Xing4.0-29B-A4B, Ternary Bonsai 27B, Atria Dawn Preview, Maple-Preview, Bonsai 27B, Qwen3.8 27B NVFP4, Intern-S2-397B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, Solar Open2 250B, Laguna S 2.1, Motif 3, Nex-N2-Pro, K-EXAONE 2.0 0803, K2 Horizon 375B A23B, A.X-K2, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B, Intern-S2-Preview (35B-A3B), North Mini Code, G9v3-39A5B, Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct, Qwen3.8 Flash-Next NVFP4, Devstral 2, K2 Horizon 7B, K2-Horizon-32B, Devstral Small 2, MiniCPM5-2B, Ling 3.0 Tiny, K2 Horizon 3.7B, K2 Horizon 0.9B, LFM2.5-2.6B

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • Mistral Large 4
    Quality
    62.5
    Rank
    #25/119
    Price
    $2.06/M tok
    Speed
    —
    In$1.36Out$4.18/M tok

    vs Mistral Large 3: +38.4 quality · 2.8× price

  • Mistral Large 3
    Quality
    24.1
    Rank
    #98/119
    Price
    $0.75/M tok
    Speed
    77tok/s
    In$0.50▾Out$1.50▾/M tok

    vs Mistral Large 4: −38.4 quality · 0.36× price

Overview

Lab
Mistral AI
Mistral AI
Released
Oct 6, 2026
Dec 2, 2025
Weights
Proprietary
Open
Input price
$/M tok
$1.36
$0.50Best
Output price
$/M tok
$4.18
$1.50Best
Blended price
$/M tok · 3:1 in:out
$2.065
$0.75Best
Output speed
tok/s
—
77
Context
tokens
—
256K

Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

62.5±6.5Best
#25/119Lab-reported
24.1±6.4
#98/119Verified
Not ranked
38.7±3.3
#83/156Verified
Not ranked
27.6±4.8
#73/91Verified
Not ranked
25.0±3.4
#140/200Verified
81.2±10.1Best
#14/178Lab-reported
16.4±4.2
#157/178Verified

Coding benchmarks

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~last/18below measured range (<41.1)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks
Benchmarks in other categories (4)

Writing & chat benchmarks

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Vision benchmarks

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Hard reasoning benchmarks

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Agents benchmarks

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~last/5below measured range (<47.5%)Estimated
estimated from related benchmarks