Mistral Large 3

Mistral · Mistral Large line · flagship · open weights

Released December 2, 2025Replaced by Mistral Large 4

Mistral Large 3 was released by Mistral on December 2, 2025, as an open-weights flagship model in the Mistral Large line.

What changed

Released as open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, with 41B active and 675B total parameters.

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Mistral Large 4 is the current model in this line. The card shows how long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.

Mistral Large

Mistral · flagship line · open weights

Latest: Mistral Large 4 · Oct 6, 2026

Just released18 days since the last release · usual gap 229 days

Mistral's first large reasoning model, natively multimodal with 1 trillion parameters (49 billion active), lifts the Intelligence Index from 9 to 38 but costs almost three times as much as Mistral Large 3.

What changed in Mistral Large 4 →
Days since last release
18
days
Usual gap
229
days
Recent gaps
Mistral Large 4 · Oct 2026
308
Mistral Large 3 · Dec 2025
379
Mistral Large 2.1 · Nov 2024
117
Mistral Large 2 · Jul 2024
149

Every Mistral Large release

Newest first. See the full line with every card →

  1. Oct 6, 2026Mistral Large 4
  2. Dec 2, 2025Mistral Large 3 · this page
  3. Nov 18, 2024Mistral Large 2.1
  4. Jul 24, 2024Mistral Large 2
  5. Feb 26, 2024Mistral Large 1