Mistral Medium 3 Instruct
Mistral Medium 3 Instruct is worth evaluating for long context and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating long context and vision
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Mistral Medium
- Released
- 2025-10-01
- Context
- 128k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-03
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 2 routes · Mistral AI Studio
About
Mistral Medium 3 Instruct is MistralAI's Mistral Medium model. It offers a 128K-token context window.
Mistral Medium 3 Instruct is a proprietary model in the Mistral Medium family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window and multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through NVIDIA NIM and Mistral AI Studio, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.4 input and $2 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Mistral Medium 3 Instruct yet.
Top use-case fit
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Batch in / out | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral AI Studio | $0.400 | $2.00 | $0.200 / $1.00 | Serverless |
| NVIDIA NIM | - | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(11)
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OpenRouter
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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.
Martian
RouterAI-powered LLM router that analyzes each prompt in real-time to select the optimal model, targeting 20–97% cost reduction while maintaining quality; San Francisco startup reportedly nearing $1.3B valuation.
Neutrino AI
RouterCommercial LLM router that dynamically routes each query to the best-suited model with load balancing and fallback handling, charging 3% of underlying AI spend.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Long context
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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Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Mistral Medium 3 Instruct?
Mistral Medium 3 Instruct has a context window of 128k tokens.
How much does Mistral Medium 3 Instruct cost?
Mistral Medium 3 Instruct is available at $0.40/1M input tokens through Mistral AI Studio.
When was Mistral Medium 3 Instruct released?
Mistral Medium 3 Instruct was released on 2025-10-01.
Which providers offer Mistral Medium 3 Instruct?
Mistral Medium 3 Instruct is available from 2 providers: NVIDIA NIM, Mistral AI Studio.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Mistral AI Studio