Mistral Medium 3

Mistral chattool_usevision

API ID: mistralai/mistral-medium-3

Input Price
$0.40
/1M tokens
Output Price
$2.00
/1M tokens
Cached Input
$0.04
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About Mistral Medium 3

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 8ร— 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.

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Price Ranking
#962 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
131k
Max Output
โ€”
Release Date
2025-05-07
Capabilities
chat tool_use vision
Input Modalities
textimagefile
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

๐Ÿ’ฐ Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.78
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$24.00
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each

Mistral Model Lineup

Compare all models from Mistral to find the best fit

Model Input Output Context Capabilities
Mistral Medium 3 Current Free Free 131k chat tool_use vision
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Mixtral 8x22B (base) Free Free 66k chat
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๐Ÿš€ Quick Start

Get started with Mistral Medium 3 API

OpenAI-compatible SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistralai/mistral-medium-3",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)