Decision snapshot
Where this family fits
- Suitable for
- Teams comparing managed API access with self-managed weights, especially when multilingual work, coding, or efficient inference matters.
- Access
- Hosted API · Open weights · Local-capable
- Capabilities
- General & Reasoning · Coding · Vision & Multimodal · Agents & Tool Use
- Weights
- Current releases include Apache 2.0 and Modified MIT weights; the exact license is version-specific.
Decision boundary
Mistral publishes multiple licenses across the family. Check the exact model card: even current open-weight releases do not all use the same license.
Selected current releases
Exact names and model IDs
This is a maintained selection from official sources, not a complete catalog. Provider status labels are preserved instead of converted into a Richbay score.
| Release | Provider status | Access and modality | Context | Weights / license |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mistral Medium 3.5 ↗mistral-medium-3-5 | GA | Mistral API + weightsMultimodal | See current model card | Open weights · Modified MIT |
Mistral Small 4 ↗mistral-small-2603 | GA | Mistral API + weightsMultimodal | 256K tokens | Open weights · Apache 2.0 |
Mistral Large 3 ↗mistral-large-2512 | GA | Mistral API + weightsMultimodal | 256K tokens | Open weights · Apache 2.0 |
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