Mistral Medium 3 by Mistral AI: frontier-class multimodal model, continuous pretraining, full fine-tuning, and hybrid/on-prem deployment.
Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits
Mistral AI designed Mistral Medium 3 specifically for professional use categories, with documented strength in coding and STEM tasks. The model is not positioned as a general-purpose assistant but as an enterprise-integration-first system, supporting continuous pretraining, full fine-tuning, and blending into enterprise knowledge bases.
Officially documented API capabilities include: Chat Completions, Function Calling, Agents & Conversations, Built-In Tools, Structured Outputs, Predicted Outputs, Prefix, OCR (with Annotations and BBox Extraction), Document QnA, FIM, Embeddings, Moderations, Chat Moderations, Transcriptions, Text to Speech, Timestamps, and Batching.
At launch, the API was available on Mistral La Plateforme and Amazon SageMaker, with IBM WatsonX, NVIDIA NIM, Azure AI Foundry, and Google Cloud Vertex listed as forthcoming.
Independent evaluations · Artificial Analysis
Evaluate specifications, pricing, and independent benchmark indices
| Model Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General Info | |||
| Provider | Mistral | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Release Date | May 7, 2025 | July 24, 2026 | June 9, 2026 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | Mar 2025 | May 2026 | - |
| Context & Limits | |||
| Context Window | 131K | 1M Best Context Window | 1M Best Context Window |
| Pricing (per 1M tokens) | |||
| Input Pricing | $0.40 Best Input Pricing | $5 | $10 |
| Output Pricing | $2 Best Output Pricing | $25 | $50 |
| Modalities | |||
| Inputs | textimagefile | textimage | textimagefile |
| Outputs | text | text | text |
| Benchmarks (0-100) | |||
| Intelligence Index | 12.5 | 63.1 Best Intelligence Index | 62.1 |
| Coding Index | - | 78.0 Best Coding Index | 76.5 |
| Agentic Index | - | 59.2 Best Agentic Index | 56.6 |
Graduate-level reasoning and expert Q&A evaluation.
Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.
Logical reasoning over long context windows.
Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.
