Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 is Mistral's public-preview flagship, announced October 6, 2026. The launch post describes a 1-trillion-parameter model with 49 billion active parameters, trained on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs, and says the weights will be released at the end of the month.
Provider
Mistral AI
Model family
Mistral AI
Multimodal MoE LLM
Cost tier
Large
Status
Current
Release Oct 6, 2026
Why teams choose it
Complex reasoning
Useful for workflows that require structured thinking, multi-step logic, and deeper analysis than lightweight models provide.
Long-context analysis
Helps teams summarize, compare, and extract insights from long documents without losing important nuance.
Mistral AI roadmap vigilance
Use published model pages—not stale marketing blurbs—for modalities, quotas, pricing, and policy; schedule revalidation tied to vendor release notes.
Cost-efficient routing
Useful as part of a routing stack where cheap models handle drafts and confirmations and this tier handles genuinely hard passages.
Tradeoffs to know
- Public preview. Weights were not released on the October 6 announcement.
- The launch post says 1T total and 49B active; the model card says 1.05T total and 52B active.
- The pricing page shows a sale rate and a higher original rate. The catalog stores the sale rate.
- Vendor benchmark scores on the launch post are not independent results.
Technical specs
- Inputs
- text, image
- Outputs
- text
- Capabilities
- Public preview on Mistral Studio, 1 million token context on the model card, Native multimodal inputs, Open-weight release planned for the end of October 2026
- License
- Open v26.10; weights not released yet
- Price Basis
- sale
- Vision Encoder Parameters
- 1.6B
- Model Card Total Parameters
- 1.05T
- Launch Post Total Parameters
- 1T
- Model Card Active Parameters
- 52B
- Launch Post Active Parameters
- 49B
- Original Input Price Per Million
- 1.36
- Original Output Price Per Million
- 4.18
- Original Cached Input Price Per Million
- 0.14
Benchmarks
- Deepswe Percent (vendor-reported)
- 61.7
- Swe Atlas Qna Percent (vendor-reported)
- 59.4
- Automationbench Percent (vendor-reported)
- 59.9
- Terminal Bench 4 Percent (vendor-reported)
- 28.3
- Coding Agent Index Percent (vendor-reported)
- 49.8
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Mistral Large 4 FAQ
What is Mistral Large 4?
Mistral Large 4 is Mistral's public-preview flagship, announced October 6, 2026. The launch post describes a 1-trillion-parameter model with 49 billion active parameters, trained on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs, and says the weights will be released at the end of the month. The same-day model card lists 1.05 trillion total parameters, 52 billion active parameters, a 1.6 billion vision encoder, and a 1 million token context window. The pricing page lists a sale price of $0.68 input, $0.07 cached input, and $2.09 output per million tokens, and an original price of $1.36, $0.14, and $4.18. The preview API is on Mistral Studio. The model card renders the model string as mistral-large-4.
When does Mistral Large 4 fit best?
Preview coding and agent work on Mistral Studio
What should teams watch out for with Mistral Large 4?
Public preview. Weights were not released on the October 6 announcement.
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