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 3.5 ThinkingMistralRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral | Mistral |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Open weights |
| Added | Sep 25, 2025 | Apr 30, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 131.07K | 256KBest |
| Max output | 32.77K | 32.77K |
| Average output | 683 tokens | — |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.40Best | $1.50 |
| Output | $2.00Best | $7.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 105.1 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 2.9 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 9.0 | — |
| Math Index | 30.3 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | none, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Mistral Medium 3
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking
Intelligence Index
- Mistral Medium 39.0
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking—
Mistral Medium 3: Better than 16% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Mistral Medium 3: 30.3
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Mistral Medium 3: 31.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Mistral Medium 3: 4.1%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Mistral Medium 3: 57.8%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Mistral Medium 3: 76.0%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Mistral Medium 3: 39.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Mistral Medium 3: 40.0%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Mistral Medium 3: 30.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Mistral Medium 3: 44.0%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Mistral Medium 3: 90.7%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Mistral Medium 3: 3.8%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Mistral Medium 3: 24.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Mistral Medium 3: 31.3%
- Mistral Medium 3.5 Thinking: —
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
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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