Mistral

Mistral Medium 3

StrongProprietaryProprietary
Input Price
$0.40
/M tokens
Output Price
$2.00
/M tokens
Intelligence
50
/100
Arena Rank
#54
Overall
Coding Rank
#56
Arena
Context
128K
tokens

One9Founders Verdictexcellent

The cheapest mainstream API at $0.02/M input. Mistral Medium 3 won't win any Arena awards, but at this price point it handles classification, routing, and simple tasks at near-zero cost. EU-based for teams with non-US data processing requirements.

At $0.02/M, it costs more to think about the cost than to actually use it.

Best For

  • model routing (classify then escalate)
  • content moderation
  • data labeling
  • EU data residency requirements

Not Great For

  • complex reasoning
  • frontier-quality generation
  • creative writing

Startup Recommendation

Every startup's routing layer. Use this for classification, escalate to better models for complex tasks.

Pricing Details

Input
$0.40
per 1M tokens
Output
$2.00
per 1M tokens

Capabilities

Function Calling
Structured Output
Vision
-Web Search
-Code Execution
-MCP
-Audio Input
-Video Input
-Reasoning
Streaming
-Batch API
-Computer Use

Chatbot Arena Rankings

Overall
#54
Coding
#56
Math
#65
Creative
#57

Security & Compliance

SOC 2 Type II
GDPR
HIPAA
Enterprise SSO
Audit Logs

Training data policy: API data not used for training

DPDP Act (India): EU-based. Good for enterprises needing non-US data processing.

Data residency: EU (France)

India Availability

Available. EU-based servers. Good latency via CDN.