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Released December 2025

Mistral Large 3 API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis

Model Comparison

This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of Mistral Large 3 for your use-case.

Fastest

#1
AmazonAmazon
199.4 t/s
#2
AzureAzure
96.9 t/s
#3
MistralMistral
74.2 t/s

Output speed

Total 3 providers

Lowest Latency

#1
MistralMistral
1.06 s
#2
AmazonAmazon
1.10 s
#3
AzureAzure
1.40 s

Time to first token

Total 3 providers

Lowest Price

#1
AmazonAmazon
$0.60
#2
AzureAzure
$0.60
#3
MistralMistral
$0.60

Blended price (per 1M tokens)

Total 3 providers

Mistral Large 3 is available through 3 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.

  • For output speed, the top providers are Amazon (199.4 t/s), Azure (96.9 t/s), and Mistral (74.2 t/s).
  • For latency, Mistral (1.06s), Amazon (1.10s), and Azure (1.40s) offer the lowest time to first token.
  • For pricing, Amazon (0.60), Azure (0.60), and Mistral (0.60) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens.
  • Amazon provides an excellent balance of speed and cost-effectiveness. For the lowest latency, Mistral is the best choice.

Highlights

Output tokens per second · Higher is better
Seconds · Lower is better
USD per 1M tokens (blended) · Lower is better

Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.

Pricing

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Price (USD per M Tokens) · Lower is better · 10,000 input tokens

Pricing: Blended Price

Blended at 7:2:1 (cache-input-output) · USD per 1M tokens (blended) · Lower is better

Output Speed vs. Price

Blended at 7:2:1 (cache-input-output) · Output speed: output tokens per second · USD per 1M tokens (blended)
Most attractive quadrant

Speed

Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)

Output Speed: Mistral Large 3

Output speed: output tokens per second · 10,000 input tokens

Latency vs. Output Speed

Latency: seconds to first token received · Output speed: output tokens per second · 10,000 input tokens
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line

Latency

Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token

Time to First Token

Seconds to first token received · Lower is better · 10,000 input tokens

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, including reasoning model 'thinking' time · Lower is better · 10,000 input tokens

Key Comparison Metrics & API Features

Amazon Bedrock logoAmazon Bedrock
256k
Open
$0.10
191
1.10
3.73
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Microsoft Azure logoMicrosoft Azure
256k
Open
$0.10
73
1.41
8.23
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Mistral logoMistral
262k
Open
$0.10
74
1.05
7.83
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Mistral Large 3 providers