Open-weight multimodal model from Mistral AI (December 2025), built on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 41B active and 675B total parameters, 256k context, Apache 2.0 license.
Context window
256k
tokens
Parameters
675B total / 41B active
parameters
Release date
2 December 2025
Access:APIDownloadHostedDeployment:โ Cloud๐ป Local
Overview
Applications
Access & deployment
APIDownloadHosted
CloudLocal
Weights: Open source
Key parameters
๐ Context: 256k
๐งฉ Parameters: 675B total / 41B active
๐ฅ Input: text, image
Technical specification
Context window
256k
tokens
Parameters
675B total / 41B active
parameters
License
Apache 2.0
Modalities
โฌ Input
textimage
โฌ Output
textcode
Capabilities and applications
Native model capabilities
Image understanding
Analysing and interpreting the content of images.
Category: vision
Multilingual
Competence in many natural languages (from a few to over a hundred): understanding, generation, translation, and code-switching within a single conversation. Frontier models support a wide range of languages with comparable quality.
Category: language
Multimodal understanding
Category: multimodal
Function Calling
Category: planning
Structured output
Producing data in structured formats such as JSON.
Category: structured_generation
Long context
Support for large context windows โ tens to hundreds of thousands (or millions) of input tokens. Enables analysis of entire codebases, long documents, and many parallel conversations without losing earlier information. GPT-5.1 supports 400,000 tokens.
Category: language
OCR
Recognising text within images and documents.
Category: vision
Benchmark results
1 benchmark
LMArena (leaderboard)
Ranking wsrod modeli open-source (OSS) ยท Mistral Large 3 ranked #6 among open-source (OSS) models on the LMArena leaderboard per Mistral AI's announcement.
#6pozycja
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2 Dec 2025
Source: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3
Pricing
Technical architecture
Core Architecture
Model Form
Training Techniques
Related Technologies
Deployment and security
โ Available on platforms
๐ Security / Enterprise
โ Verified enterprise information
Open-weight model under Apache 2.0 - self-hosting / on-premises deployment possible (full data control). Also available on Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Hugging Face with the providers' enterprise controls; supports secure integration with internal tools (function calling).
Updated: 31 Jul 2026โ Security documentation
