Mistral Large 3 review, price and benchmarks (2026)

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Provider

Statuspublic

AA Intelligence Index15.9 (July 16, 2026 snapshot)

Releasedn/a

Context windown/a

Modalitiesn/a

API price $/1M (in / out)n/a

Speedn/a

AccessOpen weights · Le Chat free tier · API

In one line

The 675B MoE that was Europe's flagship in 2025 - the index now places it well behind newer, smaller Mistral releases.

Coding36

Reasoning32

Writing38

Agents & tools28

Category scores (0-100) are WhichAI blended ratings: public category leaderboards plus editorial judgment. Guidance, not official measurements.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 2026 rebased scale (top models ≈ 55–60). Snapshot: July 24, 2026 (BenchLM mirror), retrieved July 26, 2026. Context, price and release data come from vendor pages and public pricing mirrors (retrieved July 19, 2026). Missing values are not published or not yet verified - shown as -. Sources are linked inside the app (Model guide and About > Methodology).