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In brief Mistral Medium 3 rivals Claude 3.7 and Gemini 2.0 at one-eighth the cost, targeting enterprise AI at scale. The model excels in coding and business applications, outperforming Llama 4 Maverick and Cohere Command A in benchmarks. Now live on Mistral La Plateforme and Amazon Sagemaker, with Google Cloud and Azure integrations coming soon. Mistral Medium 3 dropped yesterday, positioning the model as a direct challenge to the economics of enterprise AI deployment. The Paris-based startup, founded in 2023 by former Google DeepMind and Meta AI researchers, released what it claims delivers frontier performance at one-eighth the operational cost of comparable models. “Mistral Medium 3 delivers frontier performance while being an order of magnitude less expensive,” the company said. The model represents Mistral AI’s most powerful proprietary offering to date, distinguishing itself from an open-source portfolio that includes Mistral 7B, Mixtral, Codestral, and Pixtral. At $0.4 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens, Medium 3 significantly undercuts competitors while maintaining performance parity. Independent evaluations by Artificial Analysis positioned the model “amongst the leading non-reasoning models with Medium 3 rivalling Llama 4 Maverick, Gemini 2.0 Flash and Claude 3.7 Sonnet.” Mistral Medium 3 independent evals: Mistral is back amongst the leading non-reasoning models with Medium 3 rivalling Llama 4 Maverick, Gemini 2.0 Flash and Claude 3.7 Sonnet Key takeaways:➤ Intelligence: We see substantial intelligence gains across all 7 of our evals compared… pic.twitter.com/mc9il9WV8J — Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) May 8, 2025 The model excels particularly in professional domains. Human evaluations demonstrated superior performance in coding tasks, with Sophia Yang, a Mistral AI representative, noting that “Mistral Medium 3 shines in the coding domain and delivers much better performance, across the board, than some of its much larger competitors.” Benchmark results indicate Medium 3 performs at or above Anthropic’s…

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