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Why use Mistral Medium on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers Mistral Medium with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.40/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Compare Mistral Medium across 2 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: mistralai/mistral-medium-3mistralai/mistral-medium-3Request example
mistralai/mistral-medium-3.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "mistralai/mistral-medium-3", not the LLMReference slug "mistral-medium-1".
Compare Mistral Medium Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral AI Studio | $1.50 | $7.50 |
| OpenRouter | $0.40 | $2.00 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.40 |
| Output tokens | $2.00 |
Capabilities
About Mistral Medium
Mistral Medium is a versatile large language model developed by Mistral AI, designed to handle a wide array of tasks with a robust 32k token context window, allowing it to process approximately 24,000 words. Built on a transformer architecture, it offers native fluency in multiple languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian, enhancing its multilingual reasoning capabilities. Available via API, Mistral Medium is proprietary and stronger than some of Mistral AI's open-source models like Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral-7B. While it is described as more cost-effective than models such as GPT-4, specific pricing details are not provided 11011.