Mistral · Balanced
Mistral Medium 3
Mistral Medium 3 delivers frontier performance while being an order of magnitude less expensive. For instance, the model performs at or above 90% of Claude Sonnet 3.7 on benchmarks across the board at a significantly lower cost. On performance, Mistral Medium 3 also surpasses leading open models such as Llama 4 Maverick and enterprise models such as Cohere Command A. On pricing, the model beats cost leaders such as DeepSeek v3, both in API and self-deployed systems.
- Vision
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Balanced
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.40
- Output
- $2.00
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 131.1K
- Max output
- 32.8K
- Average output (7 days)
- 683 tokens
- Longer than 61% of 468 models
Side by side
Mistral Medium 3 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Mistral Medium 3MistralThis model | Mistral Medium 3.1MistralRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral | Mistral |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Added | Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 5, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 131.07K | 131.07K |
| Max output | 32.77K | 32.77K |
| Average output | 683 tokens | 60 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.40 | $0.40 |
| Output | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 105.1 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 2.9 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 9.0 | 9.2Best |
| Coding Index | — | 20.5 |
| Math Index | 30.3 | 38.3Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Mistral Medium 3
- Mistral Medium 3.1
Intelligence Index
- Mistral Medium 39.0
- Mistral Medium 3.19.2
Mistral Medium 3: Better than 16% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 20.5
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Mistral Medium 3: 30.3
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 38.3Top
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 4.1%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 0.2%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 530 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 385 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 1.2%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Mistral Medium 3: 31.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 42.7%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 2.8%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Mistral Medium 3: 4.1%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 4.7%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Mistral Medium 3: 57.8%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 58.8%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Mistral Medium 3: 76.0%Top
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 68.3%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Mistral Medium 3: 39.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 39.8%Top
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 0.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 32.4%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Mistral Medium 3: 40.0%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 40.6%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Mistral Medium 3: 30.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 38.3%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Mistral Medium 3: 44.0%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Mistral Medium 3: 90.7%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Mistral Medium 3: 3.8%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Mistral Medium 3: 24.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 40.6%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Mistral Medium 3: 31.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 42.7%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Mistral Medium 3
- Mistral Medium 3.1
| Leaderboard | Mistral Medium 3 | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1204.1 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 105.1 tok/s
- Faster than 64% of 254 models
- Time to first token
- 2.9 s
- Quicker than 59% of 254 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 41.1%
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistralai/mistral-medium-3",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistralai/mistral-medium-3",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Mistral
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