Mistral Large
Mistral's European flagship, strong on reasoning, coding and multilingual tasks with a privacy-friendly deployment story. Weights are available under Mistral's research and commercial license.
At a glance
Released
Jul 22, 2026
Provider
Mistral AI
Context window
256,000 tokens
Max output
64,000 tokens
Modalities
Text + image → text
Knowledge cutoff
April 2026
API model ID
mistral-large-latestLicense
Proprietary (weights available)
Pricing
Standard
Input$0.50 / 1M
Output$1.50 / 1M
A typical 1,500-token prompt with a 650-token answer costs ≈ $0.002 on the standard tier. Run your own prompt through the calculator →
What's new vs the previous model
Compared withMistral Large 2 (November 2025)
- Improved reasoning, coding and longer context
- Weights remain gated behind a license, not fully open
Best use cases
Multilingual work
Handles European languages with particular strength.
Enterprise coding
Supports code generation and analysis in regulated environments.
Private deployment
Can be self-hosted under license for data-sensitive teams.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Strong multilingual ability
- Competitive pricing
- Self-hostable weights
Limitations
- No audio or video input
- Weights gated by license
How to test it
- No-code: open chat.mistral.ai and pick Mistral Large from the model switcher — no API key needed.
- Playground: sign in to La Plateforme (the Mistral console) and run prompts in the workbench, then copy the generated code.
- API: create a key in La Plateforme (the Mistral console) and call the API (example below).
curl https://api.mistral.ai/v1/chat/completions \
# OpenAI-compatible endpoint
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistral-large-latest",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain tokenization in one paragraph."}]
}'Where to get access
Direct API
Pay-as-you-go access via La Plateforme (the Mistral console).
La Plateforme (the Mistral console) ↗