Mistral Medium 3
- Family
- Mistral Medium
- Released
- 2025-05-01
- Context
- 128K
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-03
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 3 routes · GCP Vertex AI
About
Mistral Medium 3 is Mistral AI's enterprise-grade model delivering frontier-level capabilities including vision, function calling, and code generation at competitive cost for business applications.
Providers(3)
Compare all 3Compare API pricing across 3 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.400 | $2.00 | - | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.400 | $2.00 | read $0.040 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | - | - | - | ServerlessPartial Scheduled retirement: December 9, 2026 |
Deprecated provider routes(2)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA NIM | DeprecatedRetired May 11, 2026 | mistralai/mistral-medium-3-instruct |
| Mistral AI Studio | DeprecatedRetired August 31, 2026 | mistral-medium-2505 |
Available via routers & gateways(15)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Cheapest of 3 routes · GCP Vertex AI