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Mistral Medium 3OPEN
Mistral Medium 3 (Mistral AI): live API pricing, context window and the best open-source alternatives, tracked daily by OpenSourceAI.tech.
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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Mistral Medium 3, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
For the same budget, Mistral Medium 3 delivers 2.6 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
About this model
Mistral Medium 3 is an open-weight AI model by Mistral AI. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Mistral Medium 3?
Mistral Medium 3 is an AI language model from Mistral AI. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 12.5 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Mistral Medium 3 free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Mistral Medium 3 and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.4 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens.
What is Mistral Medium 3 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 57.8%, MMLU-Pro 76%, Humanity's Last Exam 4.3%, Long Context Reasoning 28%, LiveCodeBench 40%, SciCode 33.1%, MATH-500 90.7%, AIME 44%, AIME 2025 30.3%, IFBench 39.3%, τ²-Bench 24.3%, Terminal-Bench Hard 3.8%. It is particularly used for mathematical reasoning.
Can I self-host Mistral Medium 3?
Yes. Mistral Medium 3 has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.
Open-source alternatives
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