mistral-medium-3 pricing

mistral-medium-3 is priced at $0.40 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens, with roughly 200 ms to first token and about 85 tokens/sec output throughput.

Price per 1M tokens

Input $0.40 · Output $2.00 · Output/input ratio 5.0x.

  • 1M input + 1M output tokens: $2.40
  • 10M input + 2M output tokens/month: $8.00
  • 100M input + 20M output tokens/month: $80.00

Cheaper alternatives to mistral-medium-3

Same workload, lower output price. Validate quality before switching.

  • gpt-4o-mini — $1.50/1M output (25% cheaper)
  • glm-5.2 — $1.40/1M output (30% cheaper)
  • claude-3-haiku — $1.25/1M output (38% cheaper)
  • gpt-5-nano — $1.20/1M output (40% cheaper)

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