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Mistral: Models Intelligence, Performance & Price

Analysis of Mistral's models across key metrics including quality, price, output speed, latency, context window & more. This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best model provided by Mistral for your use-case. For more details including relating to our methodology, see our FAQs.
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Mistral Model Comparison Summary

Intelligence:Magistral Medium 1.2 logo Magistral Medium 1.2 and Mistral Large 3 logo Mistral Large 3 are the highest intelligence models offered by Mistral, followed by Devstral 2 logo Devstral 2, Mistral Medium 3.1 logo Mistral Medium 3.1 & Devstral Small 2 logo Devstral Small 2.Output Speed (tokens/s):Ministral 3 3B logo Ministral 3 3B (292 t/s) and Devstral Small logo Devstral Small (237 t/s) are the fastest models offered by Mistral, followed by Mistral Small 3 logo Mistral Small 3, Devstral Small 2 logo Devstral Small 2 & Devstral Small (May) logo Devstral Small (May).Latency (seconds):Ministral 3 3B logo Ministral 3 3B (0.28s) and  Ministral 3 8B logo Ministral 3 8B (0.29s) are the lowest latency models offered by Mistral, followed by Mistral Small 3.1 logo Mistral Small 3.1, Mistral Small (Feb) logo Mistral Small (Feb) & Ministral 3 14B logo Ministral 3 14B.Blended Price ($/M tokens):Devstral 2 logo Devstral 2 ($0.00) and Devstral Small 2 logo Devstral Small 2 ($0.00) are the cheapest models offered by Mistral, followed by Ministral 3 3B logo Ministral 3 3B, Mistral Small 3.2 logo Mistral Small 3.2 & Ministral 3 8B logo Ministral 3 8B.Context Window Size:Ministral 3 14B logo Ministral 3 14B (256k) and Ministral 3 8B logo Ministral 3 8B (256k) are the largest context window models offered by Mistral, followed by Ministral 3 3B logo Ministral 3 3B, Mistral Large 3 logo Mistral Large 3 & Devstral 2 logo Devstral 2.

Highlights

Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; Higher is better
Speed
Output Tokens per Second; Higher is better
Price
USD per 1M Tokens; Lower is better
Parallel Queries:
Prompt Length:

Intelligence Evaluations

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; Higher is better

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 includes: GDPval-AA, 𝜏²-Bench Telecom, Terminal-Bench Hard, SciCode, AA-LCR, AA-Omniscience, IFBench, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis; Higher is better
Results claimed by AI Lab (not yet independently verified)
GDPval-AA ((ELO-500)/2000)
No data available
Terminal-Bench Hard (Agentic Coding & Terminal Use)
𝜏²-Bench Telecom (Agentic Tool Use)
AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning)
AA-Omniscience Accuracy (Knowledge)
AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate (1 - Hallucination Rate)
No data available
Humanity's Last Exam (Reasoning & Knowledge)
GPQA Diamond (Scientific Reasoning)
SciCode (Coding)
IFBench (Instruction Following)
CritPt (Physics Reasoning)
MMMU Pro (Visual Reasoning)

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 includes: GDPval-AA, 𝜏²-Bench Telecom, Terminal-Bench Hard, SciCode, AA-LCR, AA-Omniscience, IFBench, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence vs. Price

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; Price: USD per 1M Tokens
Most attractive quadrant
Mistral

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 includes: GDPval-AA, 𝜏²-Bench Telecom, Terminal-Bench Hard, SciCode, AA-LCR, AA-Omniscience, IFBench, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Price per token, represented as USD per million Tokens. Price is a blend of Input & Output token prices (3:1 ratio).

Context Window

Context Window

Context Window: Tokens Limit; Higher is better

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

JSON Mode & Function Calling

Function (Tool) Calling & JSON Mode

ModelsFunction callingJSON Mode
Mistral Small 3.2, Mistral logoMistral Small 3.2, Mistral
Mistral Medium 3.1, Mistral logoMistral Medium 3.1, Mistral
Ministral 3 14B, Mistral logoMinistral 3 14B, Mistral
Ministral 3 8B, Mistral logoMinistral 3 8B, Mistral
Ministral 3 3B, Mistral logoMinistral 3 3B, Mistral
Mistral Large 3, Mistral logoMistral Large 3, Mistral
Magistral Small 1.2, Mistral logoMagistral Small 1.2, Mistral
Devstral 2, Mistral logoDevstral 2, Mistral
Devstral Small 2, Mistral logoDevstral Small 2, Mistral
Magistral Medium 1.2, Mistral logoMagistral Medium 1.2, Mistral

Indicates whether the provider supports function calling in their API. Function calling is also known as 'Tool Calling'.

Indicates whether the provider supports JSON mode in their API. When JSON mode is enabled, the models will always return a valid JSON object.

Intelligence vs. Price

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; Price: USD per 1M Tokens
Most attractive quadrant
Mistral

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 includes: GDPval-AA, 𝜏²-Bench Telecom, Terminal-Bench Hard, SciCode, AA-LCR, AA-Omniscience, IFBench, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Price per token, represented as USD per million Tokens. Price is a blend of Input & Output token prices (3:1 ratio).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Performance Summary

Output Speed vs. Price

Output Speed: Output Tokens per Second; Price: USD per 1M Tokens; 1,000 Input Tokens
Most attractive quadrant
Mistral

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Price per token, represented as USD per million Tokens. Price is a blend of Input & Output token prices (3:1 ratio).

Speed

Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)

Output Speed

Output Tokens per Second; Higher is better; 1,000 Input Tokens

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Latency

Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token

Time to First Answer Token

Seconds to First Token Received; Lower is better
'Thinking' time (reasoning models, where applicable)
Input processing time

Time to first answer token received, in seconds, after API request sent. For reasoning models, this includes the 'thinking' time of the model before providing an answer. For models which do not support streaming, this represents time to receive the completion.

Seconds to receive a 500 token response. Key components:

  • Input time: Time to receive the first response token
  • Thinking time (only for reasoning models): Time reasoning models spend outputting tokens to reason prior to providing an answer. Amount of tokens based on the average reasoning tokens across a diverse set of 60 prompts (methodology details).
  • Answer time: Time to generate 500 output tokens, based on output speed

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

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 vs. Price

End-to-End Response Time: End-to-End Seconds to Output 500 Tokens; Price: USD per 1M Tokens
Most attractive quadrant
Mistral

Seconds to receive a 500 token response considering input processing time, 'thinking' time of reasoning models, and output speed.

Price per token, represented as USD per million Tokens. Price is a blend of Input & Output token prices (3:1 ratio).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Key definitions

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Time to first token received, in seconds, after API request sent. For reasoning models which share reasoning tokens, this will be the first reasoning token. For models which do not support streaming, this represents time to receive the completion.

Price per token, represented as USD per million Tokens. Price is a blend of Input & Output token prices (3:1 ratio).

Price per token generated by the model (received from the API), represented as USD per million Tokens.

Price per token included in the request/message sent to the API, represented as USD per million Tokens.

Metrics are 'live' and are based on the past 72 hours of measurements, measurements are taken 8 times a day for single requests and 2 times per day for parallel requests.