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Mistral Large 2
Mistral's flagship dense 123B model — strong multilingual + code.
At a glance
| Provider | Mistral AI |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-07 |
| Tier | general-purpose |
| License | Closed / proprietary |
| Modalities | text |
| Context window | 128k tokens |
| Max output | 8.192k tokens |
| API price · input | $2.00 / 1M tokens |
| API price · output | $6.00 / 1M tokens |
Benchmark performance
How Mistral Large 2 stacks up against the current leader (GPT-5) and the median model in the leaderboard:
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 2 | GPT-5 | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatbot Arena Elo | 1251 | 1410 | 1320 |
| MMLU-Pro | 69.4 | 86.8 | 78.0 |
| GPQA Diamond | 48.9 | 87.3 | 65.0 |
| MATH | 71.5 | 96.7 | 78.3 |
| HumanEval | 92.0 | 95.1 | 92.0 |
| SWE-Bench Verified | N/A | 74.9 | 49.0 |
Numbers compiled from provider technical reports and Chatbot Arena. See methodology for the composite-score formula.
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What does Mistral Large 2 cost in practice?
API pricing is $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens. Assuming a 50/50 input/output split, here is what that looks like at three workload sizes:
| Volume | Per day | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M tokens/day | $4.00 | $120.00 | $1,460 |
| 10M tokens/day | $40.00 | $1,200 | $14,600 |
| 100M tokens/day | $400.00 | $12,000 | $146,000 |
Strengths & weaknesses
Where it shines
No clear top-tier strengths — this is a mid-pack model.
Where it lags
- Arena: 1251 (rank #24 of 27, below average)
- GPQA: 48.9 (rank #24 of 29, below average)
- MATH: 71.5 (rank #24 of 29, below average)
Best alternatives
The closest models to Mistral Large 2 by tier and benchmark score:
| Model | Score | $ in / out | Context | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-4o OpenAI |
66.8 | $2.50 / $10.00 | 128k | Try → · vs Mistral |
| Gemini 1.5 Pro |
67.9 | $1.25 / $5.00 | 2M | Try → · vs Mistral |
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic |
69.1 | $3.00 / $15.00 | 200k | Try → · vs Mistral |
| GPT-4.1 OpenAI |
74.5 | $2.00 / $8.00 | 1M | Try → · vs Mistral |
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic |
76.0 | $3.00 / $15.00 | 200k | Try → · vs Mistral |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Large 2 a good model?
Mistral Large 2 scores 63.7 on the llmrank.top composite (rank #25 of 30). It trails the frontier — for top performance, look at GPT-5 (86.0). Whether it's the right fit depends on your workload — see the use-case discussion on this page.
How much does Mistral Large 2 cost?
Mistral Large 2 is priced at $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens (USD). For a 10M-token-per-day workload split 50/50, that works out to roughly $40.00/day or $14,600/year.
What is Mistral Large 2's context window?
128k tokens. For very long inputs, consider a 1M+ context model like Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-4.1.
Is Mistral Large 2 open source?
No — it is a closed (proprietary) model accessed only via the provider API.
What is Mistral Large 2's SWE-Bench score?
Mistral Large 2 scores not reported on SWE-Bench Verified — the benchmark that measures real-world GitHub issue resolution. Its Chatbot Arena Elo is 1251.
What are the best alternatives to Mistral Large 2?
Closest alternatives by tier and score: GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. See the alternatives section on this page for side-by-side numbers.
Related: GPT-4o · Gemini 1.5 Pro · Claude 3.5 Sonnet · Full leaderboard
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Try Mistral Large 2 now
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