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Mistral Large

mistral/mistral-large-latest

A European model at home working in French

Mistral Large is the flagship of Mistral AI, a French company. The mistral-large-latest alias currently points to Mistral Large 3, presented on 2 December 2025: a 675B-parameter mixture of experts with 41B active, under the Apache 2.0 licence, with 262,144 tokens of context.

Modalities
Input / Output
1.2 / 3.6cr / 1K
Context window
262.1K
Released
Dec 2, 2025
Capabilities
  • Tools
  • Streaming

According to Mistral it delivers best-in-class performance on multilingual conversations outside English and Chinese. Use it to write and edit in French, translate into and out of French, summarise French-language sources or drive agents with tool calls.

On Tchavi the product and support are in French. You pay with mobile money, no bank card and no KYC, with one API key for 80+ models. OpenAI-compatible: swap the base URL, keep your SDK. Your credits never expire.

What this model does well

  • 🇪🇺

    European model

    Mistral AI, a French company; open weights, Apache 2.0

  • 🌍

    Multilingual

    Multilingual performance beyond English and Chinese, per Mistral

  • 📚

    262,144-token context

    Long French documents in a single call

  • 📤

    Up to 209K tokens out

    Long texts in a single response

  • 🛠️

    Tool calling

    Drives agents and function-calling pipelines

Example prompts

  • Solve this step by step: a merchant sells 3 items at different prices with a discount on the total. Explain each calculation.

  • Summarise this article in 5 key points, then rewrite it as one newsletter paragraph, in simple, warm French.

Good to know

  • Text-only input on Tchavi: no images and no PDFs, even though Mistral presents Large 3 as able to understand images.
  • No native JSON mode on Tchavi: describe the format you want in the prompt and validate the output.

Technical specifications

Author
mistral
API identifier
mistral-large-latest
Category
Chat & Text
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
209,715 tokens
Rate limit
300 RPM
Billing unit
token
Streaming
Yes

Ideal for

  • Writing and editing in French
  • Translation into and out of French
  • Summarising French-language sources
  • Business analysis
  • Agents with tool calls

Ready to try it?

Test this model in the playground, no setup needed.

Frequently asked questions

Mistral Large or Mistral Small: which should I pick?

Mistral Small (model: "mistral-small-latest") keeps the 262K of context and tools. Start with Small for everyday French text, and move up to Mistral Large when Small's quality is not enough. Test both on your own texts.

Mistral Large or Devstral: which should I pick?

Devstral (model: "devstral-medium-latest") is Mistral's code-trained model, with 128K of context. To generate and refactor code, take Devstral; to write, translate and analyse in French, Mistral Large.

How much context and output does it have?

262,144 tokens of context in and up to 209,715 tokens out. Enough to handle a long French report in one go.

Does it handle images, PDFs and JSON mode?

No, not on Tchavi: it takes text in, with no native JSON mode. Ask for the format in the prompt. For images or PDFs, pick Claude Sonnet 5 or GPT-6 Sol.

How do I call Mistral Large with my OpenAI SDK?

Swap the base URL for Tchavi's, use your Tchavi key and set model: "mistral-large-latest" on /v1/chat/completions. The alias follows the current Mistral Large; today, that is Large 3.

Can I pay with mobile money, without a bank card?

Yes. Top up your Tchavi account with Orange Money, MTN MoMo, M-Pesa or another mobile money operator. No bank card is needed. Credits land as soon as the payment is confirmed and are deducted as you use them.

Is the API compatible with OpenAI's?

Yes. Keep your current OpenAI SDK, just change the base URL to Tchavi's (shown in the API tab) and use your Tchavi key. The rest of your code stays the same.

API

import Tchavi from '@tchavi/sdk';

const client = new Tchavi({ apiKey: 'API_KEY' });

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'mistral-large-latest',
  messages: [
  {
    "role": "user",
    "content": "Hello!"
  }
],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);
console.log('Credits used:', response.tchavi.credits_used);

API parameters

Every parameter this model accepts on the API. Check the SDK for full typings.

modelRequired
string

ID of the chat model (e.g. `mistral-large-latest`).

messagesRequired
Array<{ role, content }>

Conversation messages. Each item has a `role` (system/user/assistant) and a `content` that's either a plain string or an array of content blocks (`text`, `image_url`, `document_url`).

temperature
number
Default: 1

Sampling temperature between 0 and 2. Higher values = more random.

max_tokens
integer

Maximum number of tokens to generate in the response.

max_completion_tokens
integer

OpenAI alias for `max_tokens`. Either field works; if both are sent, `max_completion_tokens` wins.

stream
boolean
Default: false

If true, partial message deltas are streamed as Server-Sent Events.

tools
Array<{ type, function }>

Function-calling toolbox. Pass an array of `{ type: "function", function: { name, description, parameters } }`. Returned tool calls land in `choices[].message.tool_calls`. Only models with `supportsTools: true` accept this.

tool_choice
"auto" | "none" | { type, function }

How the model picks among tools: `"auto"` (default), `"none"` to force a plain text reply, or `{ type: "function", function: { name } }` to force a specific tool. Only with `supportsTools: true`.

Show all parameters (17)
top_p
number
Default: 1

Nucleus sampling: only tokens in the top `top_p` probability mass are considered.

seed
integer

Integer seed for deterministic output. The same seed + identical request yields the same completion when supported by the provider. OpenAI honours it; Anthropic ignores.

n
integer
Default: 1

Number of completions to generate in one call. Defaults to 1; each extra completion is billed.

stream_options
{ include_usage?: boolean }

Streaming options, e.g. `{ "include_usage": true }` to receive a final SSE chunk with usage counts. Effective only when `stream: true`.

stop
string | string[]

Up to 4 sequences where the API will stop generating further tokens.

frequency_penalty
number
Default: 0

Between -2.0 and 2.0. Positive values penalize tokens that have appeared frequently.

presence_penalty
number
Default: 0

Between -2.0 and 2.0. Positive values encourage the model to talk about new topics.

user
string

End-user identifier passed to the upstream provider for abuse / moderation tracking. Should be stable per end-user.

logit_bias
Record<string, number>

Per-token logit bias `{ "<tokenId>": <-100..100>, ... }`. OpenAI-specific; Anthropic ignores silently.

Pricing

per 1,000 tokens
1.2 credits
Input 1.2 · Output 3.6 cr/1K

How billing works

  • Billed per token used, down to a thousandth of a credit.
  • A typical message (500 in, 150 out) costs about —, or 1.14 credits.
Real-world scenarios
Per day
Per week
Per month

Estimated over 30 days, for a typical message: ~500 input + ~150 output tokens, billed to the thousandth of a credit.

A 10 000 F CFA top-up gives you about ~26 318 questions. Pay with Orange Money, MTN MoMo or M-Pesa — no Visa card needed.

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