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Mistral Large 2

Mistral's flagship API model, strong on code and reasoning, EU-friendly hosting.

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Quick facts

Released
Jul 2024
Context
128K tokens
Output / 1M
$6.00 / 1M tokens
License
Mistral Research License

About Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2 was the company's mid-2024 flagship and remains in production use, particularly in European deployments where data residency matters. It's competitive with GPT-4-class models on reasoning and code, with a particularly strong showing on multilingual tasks.

Benchmarks

Published scores from Mistral's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval
92.0
Python coding pass@1
MMLU
84.0
Broad academic knowledge
GPQA
,
Graduate-level reasoning
SWE-bench
,
Real software-engineering tasks
  • MMLU84.0
  • HumanEval92.0

Capabilities

Strengths

  • Strong code and math
  • EU data residency
  • Multilingual

Tracked weaknesses

  • Older generation by 2026 standards
  • Research license restricts commercial fine-tuning

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Mistral.

TierPriceNotes
Input$2.00 / 1M tokensTokens you send to the model
Output$6.00 / 1M tokensTokens the model generates
Context128K tokensMax combined input + output

Call Mistral Large 2 from your code

Drop-in snippet for the Mistral SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "mistral-large-2",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Best for

Tasks where Mistral Large 2 ranks among LLMDex's top picks.

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Frequently asked

  • How much does Mistral Large 2 cost per million tokens?
    Mistral Large 2 is priced at $2.00 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $6.00 / 1M tokens for output tokens via the official Mistral API at the time of writing.
  • What is Mistral Large 2's context window?
    Mistral Large 2 supports a context window of 128K tokens.
  • Is Mistral Large 2 open source?
    Mistral Large 2 ships with open weights under the Mistral Research License license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.
  • When was Mistral Large 2 released?
    Mistral Large 2 was released on Jul 24, 2024 by Mistral.
  • What is Mistral Large 2's knowledge cutoff?
    Mistral Large 2's training data has a knowledge cutoff of Apr 2024. For information after that date you'll need a tool-use or web-search wrapper.
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