Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 API Pricing
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 costs $0.400 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.040). Context window: 131K. Prices verified 2026-10-21 · source
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Token economics
| Token type | Price | vs base input |
|---|---|---|
| Standard input | $0.400 | — |
| Cache read | $0.040 | −90% |
| Output | $2.00 | — |
Prompt caching stores repeated context server-side: reads cost far less, but writes carry a one-time premium.
Training data ends here — newer events require retrieval or web search.
What would Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $11.20 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $36.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $78.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $20.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Mistral: Mistral Medium 3
Mistral Medium 3 is a high-performance enterprise-grade language model designed to deliver frontier-level capabilities at significantly reduced operational cost. It balances state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal performance with 8× lower cost...
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 cost?
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 costs $0.400 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens; cached input tokens cost $0.040 per 1M. Verified 2026-10-21 — provider source.
What is the context window?
131K tokens, with up to 105K output tokens per response. That's roughly 164 pages of text in a single request.
Does it support prompt caching?
Yes — cached input is $0.040/1M, about 90% cheaper than standard input. Agents and RAG workloads with repeated context benefit most.
What's a cheaper alternative?
ScaleDown: Summarize saves about 97% on a typical workload with comparable quality.
Official resources
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