Mistral Large 3
Open Weights
Mistral AI
Mistral's December 2025 open-weights flagship: a 675B-total / ~41B-active sparse mixture-of-experts model with native vision, a 256K-token context window, and strong multilingual support - released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
Strengths
- Apache 2.0 license - fully permissive commercial use and self-hosting
- Sparse MoE (~41B active) keeps inference efficient for a 675B model
- Native vision and 256K-token context window
- Strong multilingual coverage
Caveats
- 675B total weights require substantial multi-GPU memory to self-host
- 256K context trails the 1M offered by some competitors
- Vendor
- Mistral AI
- Context Window
- 256,000 tokens
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Release Date
- 2025-12-02
- Modalities
- textimage
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
Open weights under Apache 2.0 - free to self-host; managed API/pricing via Mistral and other providers.