How much does Mistral Medium 3 cost?

Mistral Medium 3 costs $0.40/M input tokens and $2.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.04/M tokens.

What is the context length of Mistral Medium 3?

Mistral Medium 3 has a 131,072 token context window. It supports up to 131,072 completion tokens.

Does Mistral Medium 3 support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes. Mistral Medium 3 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

What inputs and outputs does Mistral Medium 3 support?

Mistral Medium 3 accepts text, images, and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.

Which providers serve Mistral Medium 3?

Mistral Medium 3 is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: Mistral.

What other text models does Mistral have?

Mistral Large 4, Mistral Medium 3.5, Mistral Small 4 and 16 more are other text models from Mistral.

When was Mistral Medium 3 released?

Mistral Medium 3 was released on May 7, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is March 31, 2025.

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3

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Mistral Medium 3 is a high-performance enterprise-grade language model designed to deliver frontier-level capabilities at significantly reduced operational cost. It balances state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal performance with 8× lower cost compared to traditional large models, making it suitable for scalable deployments across professional and industrial use cases.

The model excels in domains such as coding, STEM reasoning, and enterprise adaptation. It supports hybrid, on-prem, and in-VPC deployments and is optimized for integration into custom workflows. Mistral Medium 3 offers competitive accuracy relative to larger models like Claude Sonnet 3.5/3.7, Llama 4 Maverick, and Command R+, while maintaining broad compatibility across cloud environments.

Modalities

In / out price

$0.40 / $2per 1M

Context

131K

Released

May 7, 2025

Knowledge cutoff

Mar 2025

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Latency / throughput


	$0.40	$2.00	$0.04	0.75s	122 tok/s	100.00%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
	$0.44	$2.20	$0.044	--	--	100.00%

Input $0.40Output $2.00
122 tok/s100.00% uptime
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Input $0.44Output $2.20
-- tok/s100.00% uptime

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input

$0.16/M tokens

Output

$2/M tokens

Mistral Medium 3 — Price history

Price history

No effective price data for this selection

	$0.160	$2.00	66.7%	99.9%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
	$0.440	$2.19	0.0%	0.1%

Effective in $0.160Effective out $2.00
Token share
99.9%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Effective in $0.440Effective out $2.19
Token share
0.1%

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.99%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 99.99%

3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

99.98%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 (Artificial Analysis and Design Arena)
Source	Benchmark	Score
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 GPQA Diamond	57.8%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 HLE	4.1%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 IFBench	39.3%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 τ²-Bench Telecom	24.3%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 AA-LCR	31.3%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 CritPt	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 LiveCodeBench	40.0%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 Terminal-Bench Hard	3.8%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 MMLU-Pro	76.0%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 AIME 2025	30.3%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 AIME	44.0%
Artificial Analysis	Mistral Medium 3 MATH-500	90.7%
Design Arena	Mistral Medium 3 (2505) Models Arena 3D Elo	1062
Design Arena	Mistral Medium 3 (2505) Models Arena Code Categories Elo	1058
Design Arena	Mistral Medium 3 (2505) Models Arena Data Visualization Elo	1033
Design Arena	Mistral Medium 3 (2505) Models Arena Game Development Elo	1007
Design Arena	Mistral Medium 3 (2505) Models Arena UI Component Elo	1015
Design Arena	Mistral Medium 3 (2505) Models Arena Website Elo	1070

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Yeyu AI

new

47.5Mtokens

DeepSeek Harness

new

46.4Mtokens

KKU IntelSphere API

new

33.8Mtokens

SillyTavern

SillyTavern is the LLM frontend for power users, a chat interface that connects to any model and gives deep control through character creation, roleplay, and prompt customization.

32.6Mtokens

DocEngine AI

new

26.1Mtokens

Rest of OpenRouter

46.5M

Top 5 Apps

2.19M

Available through EU in-region routing

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).

Providers in Europe

Mistral

Prices in Europe

Mistral: $0.44/M tokens input, $2.20/M tokens output

Base URL

https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1

Plan

Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing

Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs

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Voxtral Small Transcribe 3

Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 is Mistral's flagship speech-to-text model. It takes audio input and returns a transcript with timestamps and speaker diarization, and supports context biasing for domain-specific vocabulary. Suited for high-accuracy multilingual transcription of meetings, interviews, media, and support calls.

Transcription$0.000067/second

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3

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Transcription$0.000058/second

Mistral Large 4

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Voxtral Small 24B 2507 STT

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Voxtral Mini 3B 2507

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Transcription$0.000017/second

Voxtral Mini Transcribe

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Mistral Medium 3.5

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Mistral Medium 3.5 (batch)

Text262K context$0.75 / $3.75

Voxtral Mini TTS

Voxtral Mini TTS is Mistral's text-to-speech model featuring zero-shot voice cloning and multilingual support. It converts text input into natural-sounding audio output.

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Mistral Small 4

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Voxtral Small 24B 2507

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Text33K context$0.10 / $0.30

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3

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