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Mistral AI · Released 2026-02

Mistral Large 3

European flagship from Mistral AI. Strong general reasoning, conservative on hallucinations, EU-aligned for compliance-heavy buyers.

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Params (max)
123B
Variants
123B / 22B
Context window
128K tokens
MMLU
84.8
HumanEval
80.3
GSM8K
92.1
Min VRAM (fp16, smallest variant)
48GB
Smallest Q4 GGUF
~13GB
Languages supported
24
Pros
  • Compliance-friendly origin
  • Solid reasoning
  • Tool-use support
Cons
  • ×Commercial use needs paid license
  • ×Lags DeepSeek on coding

Highlights

  • EU-headquartered org
  • Function calling built in
  • Mistral Research License (free for non-commercial; paid for commercial)

Where to download

Hugging Face: mistralai/Mistral-Large-3
Or via Ollama (ollama pull mistral-large-3) or LM Studio's in-app browser.

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