# Mistral Large 3 API, paid in crypto

> Mistral Large 3 by API at $0.475 / $1.424 per 1M tokens, 5% below Mistral AI’s own API price. Apache 2.0, OpenAI-compatible, crypto, no KYC.

- URL: https://llmwithcrypto.com/models/mistral-large-3/
- Last updated: 2026-10-23
- Publisher: LLMwithCrypto (https://llmwithcrypto.com)

Mistral AI’s Mistral Large 3, release 2512, under Apache 2.0, on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Only Mistral’s own API listed it, so our price is 5% below Mistral’s. Paid per token from a crypto balance, with no KYC.

**Quick answer — Can I use the Mistral Large 3 API and pay with crypto?**

Yes. As of 23 October 2026, **LLMwithCrypto** serves Mistral Large 3 as `mistral-large-3` at $0.475 per million input tokens and $1.424 per million output tokens. That is 5% below Mistral AI’s own API price ($0.50 / $1.50), the only one listed. Context: 256K tokens. Pay in crypto, no KYC.

## How does our price compare with other hosts?

List prices per million tokens on each host's own pricing page, read on 23 October 2026; promotions are left out. Ours is the median of these prices minus 5%; every host is in the [price index](https://llmwithcrypto.com/data/open-model-api-price-index-2026/).

| Host | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **LLMwithCrypto** | $0.475 | $1.424 |
| Mistral AI API | $0.50 | $1.50 |

*Prices checked on October 23, 2026.*

## How do I call Mistral Large 3?

With the OpenAI SDK, as for any OpenAI-compatible API: set the base URL to `https://llmwithcrypto.com/api/v1`, read your key from `LLMWITHCRYPTO_API_KEY`, and pass `mistral-large-3` as the model. Pass your API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header, as the OpenAI SDK does.

*mistral_large_3.py*

```python
import os

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://llmwithcrypto.com/api/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["LLMWITHCRYPTO_API_KEY"],
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistral-large-3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain the difference between a contract of sale and a lease, citing no case law."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
print(resp.usage)  # prompt_tokens and completion_tokens: what the call costs

```

## What is Mistral Large 3 good for?

Mistral Large 3 (2512) is the larger of the two Mistral models we serve, released under Apache 2.0 with a context of about 256K tokens. On 23 October 2026 no third-party host we read listed it, so its price reference is Mistral AI’s own API.

We position it as a European general model for chat, writing and analysis. For faster and cheaper calls, [Mistral Small 4](https://llmwithcrypto.com/models/mistral-small-4/) runs on the same key.

## What licence does Mistral Large 3 come with?

Apache 2.0, as stated in Mistral’s documentation and on the Hugging Face model card. Serving it as an API is allowed. Each model keeps its own licence and use policy (for example Meta’s Llama Acceptable Use Policy and the “Built with Llama” notice); using a model through us means accepting them.

## Mistral Large 3 questions

### Why is there only one price to compare?

Because only Mistral AI’s own API listed Mistral Large 3 on the price pages we read on 23 October 2026. Our rule then uses the maker’s price as the reference, minus 5%.

### Is this Mistral Large 4?

No. Mistral Large 4’s weights were marked “coming soon” when we checked, so it cannot be self-hosted yet. We serve Large 3.

### What do you log?

We do not store your prompts or the model’s answers: once a response is sent, its text is gone. Each call leaves one log line with the time, the account, the model and the token counts, deleted after 30 days.

## Sources

1. [Mistral AI API pricing](https://docs.mistral.ai/inference/pricing) — Mistral AI API (read 2026-10-23)

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LLMwithCrypto: LLMwithCrypto is an OpenAI-compatible LLM API for open-weight models — DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek R1, Qwen3.5 397B A17B, Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct, gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b, GLM-4.7, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, Gemma 4 31B, Mistral Large 3, Mistral Small 4 — paid per token from a prepaid crypto balance, at 5% below the median price of the public hosts. No KYC: no ID, no selfie, no documents. Prompts and outputs are not stored.