Mistral Large 3
The European open-weight multimodal MoE model
What it is
Mistral AI's (France) most capable model: an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts with 41B active parameters out of 675B total, near the top of the open leaderboards. Excels at multi-step reasoning, code, and European languages — often more natural than American competitors in Italian and French. The Codestral version specializes in coding. Self-host it (open weights) or use the Mistral API at competitive prices.
How to use it, step by step
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Try it right away in chat at chat.mistral.ai (Le Chat), free with limits.
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For the API create an account at console.mistral.ai and generate a key.
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Install the SDK: pip install mistralai and call the 'mistral-large-latest' model.
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For coding use the 'codestral' model, optimized for code generation and completion.
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Leverage its strength on European languages: great for Italian and French content.
💡Practical tips
- →For Italian it often sounds more natural than US models: try it on copy.
- →Being open-weight you can self-host it: handy for EU data-residency constraints.
- →It costs less than US flagships at comparable quality on many tasks.
💰Pricing
Le Chat free with limits. Per-token API at competitive prices; weights are open, so you can also self-host for free.
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