MistralGeneralReleased 1 December 2025
Mistral Large 3 2512 pricing, context and benchmark
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.
262K
Input context
210K
Output context
$0.5
Official input
$1.5
Official output
n/a
AA index
01 · Model Overview
Everything that matters, in one table
Context, pricing, cache, modalities and tooling, from the model registry and Artificial Analysis.
| Model | Mistral Large 3 2512 |
| Model ID | mistralai/mistral-large-2512 |
| Provider | Mistral |
| Release date | 1 December 2025 |
| Status | Generally available |
| Input context | 262,144 tokens |
| Output context | 209,715 tokens |
| Official input pricing | $0.5 per 1M tokens |
| Official output pricing | $1.5 per 1M tokens |
| Cache read pricing | $0.05 per 1M tokens |
| Market input pricing | $0.5 per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Market output pricing | $1.5 per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Input modalities | text · image · file |
| Output modalities | text |
| Reasoning control | Not exposed |
| Tool support | Functions, tool choice, structured outputs |
| Tokenizer | Mistral |
| Provider routes | 2 endpoints |
| Artificial Analysis index | Not published |
| Speed | Not published |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not publicly stated |
Input and output support
| Modality | Input | Output | Billed at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text | ✓ yes | ✓ yes | $0.5 in |
| Image | ✓ yes | no | $0.5 in |
| Audio | no | no | not supported |
| Video | no | no | not supported |
| File (PDF) | ✓ yes | no | $0.5 in |
02 · Overview
What is 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.
Mistral Large 3 2512 carries a 262K token window, uses the Mistral tokenizer and is served by Mistral. On Hoodgen it sits in the General tier of the model menu next to its siblings, so you can switch mid conversation without losing the thread.
03 · Release
Release and what changed from the previous version
Released1 December 2025
| Property | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mistral Large 3 2512 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Released | 2025 | 2025 | Same release window |
| Context | 131K | 262K | Changed |
| Max output | 105K | 210K | Changed |
| Input price | $0.4 | $0.5 | Higher |
| Output price | $2 | $1.5 | Cheaper |
| Input modalities | text, image, file | text, image, file | Unchanged |
| AA index | n/a | n/a | Newer benchmark run |
04 · Capabilities
Features and capabilities
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Function calling
Tools, tool choice and parallel calls, which is what agent loops need to act on results.
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Structured outputs
Schema constrained JSON with response_format, so no parse and retry loop in your code.
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Vision
Screenshots, charts and photographed documents are read at the text token rate.
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Files and PDFs
Documents go in as files rather than pasted text, keeping layout and tables intact.
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Prompt caching
Cached input costs $0.05 per million instead of $0.5, so stable prefixes get cheaper.
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Seeds
A seed can be pinned so the same prompt is reproducible across test runs.
07 · Use cases
What can you do with Mistral Large 3 2512?
Everyday writing
Drafts, rewrites, summaries and replies.
Research
Source material condensed with the key numbers kept.
Chat
General questions where latency and cost both matter.
Tooling inside Hoodgen
Writer, Humanizer, Coding and the rest of the tool suite.
08 · Cost levers
Prompt caching and how to cut the bill
Cached input bills at $0.05 per million instead of $0.5. Keep the system prompt and documents first and the changing question last, so every call hits the cache.
09 · Pricing
Mistral Large 3 2512 pricing
Official pricing
List price
$0.5 / 1M in
$1.5 / 1M out
- $0.05 cached input
- 262K context
- text, image, file input
Cheapest route
$0.5 / 1M in
$1.5 / 1M out
- 2 routes on OpenRouter
- What Hoodgen routes to first
- Same model, lower bill
Market pricing, every route
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral | standard | $0.5 | $1.5 | $0.05 | 100.0% |
| Mistral | standard | $0.55 | $1.65 | $0.055 | 100.0% |
API pricing and cost calculator
| Rate | Per call | Total | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $0.0069 | $3.43 | 3254 |
| List price | $0.0069 | $3.43 | 3254 |
10 · Developers
API and developer information
| Model ID | mistralai/mistral-large-2512 |
| Endpoint | https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions |
| Parameters | frequency_penalty · max_tokens · presence_penalty · response_format · seed · stop · structured_outputs · temperature · tool_choice · tools · top_p |
| Streaming | Yes, server sent events |
| Modality string | text+image+file->text |
| Max prompt tokens | 262,144 |
| Max completion tokens | 209,715 |
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistralai/mistral-large-2512",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarise this document." }],
"max_tokens": 1024
}'11 · Limitations
Model limitations
| Text only output | It cannot generate images, audio or video. Pair it with an image model on Hoodgen when you need visuals. |
| Output cap | 209,715 tokens per request. Long deliverables have to be chunked. |
| Benchmarks not published | Artificial Analysis does not publish an Intelligence Index for this release, so no benchmark score is claimed here. |
| Knowledge cutoff | The provider does not state a fixed cutoff for every release. Verify very recent events against search. |
12 · Comparison
Mistral Large 3 2512 vs other Mistral models
| Model | Context | Input /1M | Output /1M | AA index | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Large 3 2512 | 262K | $0.5 | $1.5 | n/a | 2025 |
| Devstral 2 2512 | 262K | $0.4 | $2 | n/a | 2025 |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | 131K | $0.4 | $2 | n/a | 2025 |
| Ministral 3 8B 2512 | 262K | $0.15 | $0.15 | n/a | 2025 |
13 · Privacy
Privacy and data policy
- On Hoodgen, prompts and attachments answer that request and stay in your conversation history so you can reopen it. They are not used to train models.
- Requests route through OpenRouter to Mistral and are covered by that provider's API terms.
- Do not paste secrets or personal data you would not send to any hosted model.
14 · FAQ
Mistral Large 3 2512 questions, answered
Mistral Large 3 2512 is a general model from Mistral, released 1 December 2025. 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.
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