Mistral Medium 3: API pricing, providers and specs
Mistral Medium 3 is a text model by Mistral. 3 providers serve it, from $2 to $2.12 /1M; the lowest price is at Vertex.
A newer version is out: Mistral Medium 3.5 · released Apr 29, 2026
How Mistral Medium 3 compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $2 /1M against a median of $1.10; 62% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 131K-token context window is larger than 21% of them (median 262K), about 200 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #52 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 3 providers serve it; 52% of comparable models have fewer.
Mistral Medium 3 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Vertex | $0.40/1M | $2/1M | — | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.40/1M | From$2/1M | $0.04/1M | 131K |
| AI/ML API | $0.423/1M | $2.12/1M | $0.042/1M | — |
- Vertex$2
- OpenRouterFrom$2
- AI/ML API$2.12
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Mistral
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 131K≈ 200 pages of text
- Max output
- 105K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- May 7, 2025
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Arena score
- 1370Text
Alternatives to Mistral Medium 3
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Medium 3this model | $2/1M | 131K | 1370 | 3 |
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| Grok 4.7 | $4.80/1M | 500K | 1637 | 28 |
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 Muse Spark 1.3 | $4.25/1M | 1.05M | 1657 | 11 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
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The lowest price for Mistral Medium 3 is $2 /1M, at Vertex.
Vertex, at $2 /1M. 3 providers serve Mistral Medium 3; the table above lists every one with its price.
Mistral Medium 3 reads up to 131K tokens per request and writes up to 105K.
We have not found Mistral Medium 3's weights published by its maker.
3 API providers serve Mistral Medium 3. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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