On May 7, 2025, French AI startup Mistral announced the release of its latest model, Mistral Medium 3, emphasizing a balance between efficiency and performance. Positioned as a cost-effective alternative in the competitive AI landscape, Medium 3 is designed for tasks requiring high computational efficiency without compromising output quality.
Performance and Cost Efficiency
Mistral claims that Medium 3 achieves "at or above" 90% of the performance of Anthropic’s more expensive Claude Sonnet 3.7 across various benchmarks. Additionally, it reportedly surpasses recent open models like Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick and Cohere’s Command A in popular AI performance evaluations.
The model is available through Mistral’s API at a competitive rate of $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens. For context, a million tokens approximate 750,000 words.
Deployment and Accessibility
Medium 3 is versatile in deployment, compatible with any cloud infrastructure, including self-hosted environments equipped with four or more GPUs. Beyond Mistral’s API, the model is accessible via Amazon’s SageMaker platform and is slated for integration with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry and Google’s Vertex AI in the near future.
Enterprise Applications
Tailored for coding and STEM-related tasks, Medium 3 also excels in multimodal understanding. Industries such as financial services, energy, and healthcare have been beta testing the model for applications including customer service, workflow automation, and complex data analysis.
Expansion of Mistral’s Offerings
In conjunction with the Medium 3 launch, Mistral introduced Le Chat Enterprise, a corporate-focused chatbot service. This platform offers tools like an AI agent builder and integrates with third-party services such as Gmail, Google Drive, and SharePoint. Le Chat Enterprise, previously in private preview, is now generally available and will soon support the Model Coordination Protocol (MCP), facilitating seamless integration with various AI assistants and systems.
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