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Mistral Large 3
Mistral AI's previous flagship, with open weights under Apache 2.0. Successor to Mistral Large 2 with improved multilingual coverage and reasoning; superseded by Mistral Large 4 (2026-10-06) but still listed by Mistral. EU-jurisdiction provider.
- Modality
- Text
- License
- Apache 2.0 (Open)
- Parameter size
- 675B
- Context window
- 256,000 tokens
- Released
- December 2, 2025
- Last verified
- October 28, 2026
- Runs locally
- Yes
Strengths
- Strong multilingual coverage including European languages
- EU-jurisdiction provider — relevant for data-residency rules
- Open weights under Apache 2.0 — commercial use permitted
- Significant quality improvement over Mistral Large 2
Weaknesses
- Massive deployment footprint — enterprise hardware only
Try it
| Where | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral La Plateforme | hosted-api | API key required |
| Le Chat | product | Free tier |
| Hugging Face | weights | Apache 2.0 |
Version history
- Mistral Large 4 Oct 2026
- Mistral Large 3 Dec 2025 Current Deprecated
- Mistral Large 2 Jul 2024 Deprecated
Official sources
- Model card docs
- Models overview docs
Change log
- — Deprecated — superseded by Mistral Large 4 (released 2026-10-06). Still listed as active by Mistral, no retirement date. Licence corrected from 'Mistral Research License' to Apache 2.0 (open, runs locally), per Mistral's model card and the Hugging Face repos; 256k context added from the model card.
- — Verified current against Mistral's models overview and model card; release date matches exactly.
- — Verified current vs Mistral docs (mistral-large-2512). Corrected release date to 2025-12-02 (Mistral 3 family launch).
- — Initial entry. Sighted on Hugging Face under Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512 family.
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