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Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512
Mistral Large 3 2512 is Mistral's flagship dense model updated in December 2025, offering strong multilingual reasoning and coding capabilities at a significantly reduced price point compared to its predecessor. It targets enterprise workloads that need high-quality outputs without paying top-tier frontier model prices.
Verdict
The best price-per-quality ratio in the non-mini flagship tier, especially for multilingual and long-context enterprise tasks.
Quality score
69%
Pricing
$0.50/1M in
$1.50/1M out
Speed
Balanced
Best for multilingual enterprise tasks, code generation, and long-document analysis where cost efficiency matters more than absolute state-of-the-art performance.
Context
262k tokens
Pricing of $0.50 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens places it firmly in the budget-flagship category. Available via Mistral API (La Plateforme) and major cloud providers. December 2025 update ('2512') improves instruction following over the earlier 2407 release.
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Best for
Multilingual enterprise tasks, code generation, and long-document analysis where cost efficiency matters more than absolute state-of-the-art performance.