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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.
FAQ
What does Mistral Medium cost on OpenRouter?
On OpenRouter, Mistral Medium costs $0.4 per 1M input tokens and $2 per 1M output tokens.
What is the context window for Mistral Medium on OpenRouter?
Mistral Medium supports a 131k token context window on OpenRouter.
How does OpenRouter compare to other Mistral Medium providers?
Mistral Medium is available from 2 providers. The cheapest input pricing is $0.4/1M tokens from OpenRouter.
What API model ID do I use for Mistral Medium on OpenRouter?
Use the model ID mistralai/mistral-medium-3 when calling OpenRouter's API.
Who created Mistral Medium?
Mistral Medium was created by MistralAI as part of the Mistral Medium model family.
Is Mistral Medium open source?
Mistral Medium is not open source; the seed data lists it as proprietary.