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Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)

by Mistral · mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1:batch · #135 cheapest of 422 paid models

Prices updated Sep 19, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC · refreshed hourly

Mistral Medium 3.1 is an updated version of Mistral Medium 3, which is a high-performance enterprise-grade language model designed to deliver frontier-level capabilities at significantly reduced operational cost. It balances...

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Pricing

Input

$0.20

per 1M tokens

Output

$1.00

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$0.40

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

$0.02

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) with prompt caching.

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$0.40$0.0214
50%$0.333$0.0124−42%
90%$0.278$0.0052−76%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.0004$0.4
Document summary8,0001,000$0.0026$2.60
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.008$8.00
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.035$35.00

Performance

Intelligence Index

9.5

AA composite quality

Coding Index

20.5

Math Index

38.3

Agentic Index

3.1

Output speed

0 tok/s

median

Time to first token

0s

median

Time to first answer

0s

after reasoning tokens

Artificial Analysis benchmarks

BenchmarkScore
MMLU-Pro68.3%
GPQA Diamond58.8%
Humanity's Last Exam4.7%
LiveCodeBench40.6%
SciCode32.4%
AIME 202538.3%
IFBench39.8%
AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning)42.7%
Terminal-Bench Hard10.6%
Terminal-Bench 2.113.9%
τ²-Bench (Telecom)40.6%
τ³-Bench Banking8.2%

Design Arena Elo

CategoryElo
Website1,145
UI components1,115
Data viz1,159
SVG1,016
3D1,110
Game dev1,097
Code categories1,135
ASCII art1,016

Specs

Context window

131K

tokens

Max output

105K

tokens

Input modalities

text, image, file

Tokenizer

Mistral