Question 1

What is Mistral Large 2?

Accepted Answer

Mistral Large 2 is a large language model from Mistral, released on 24 July 2024. EU-hosted frontier — multilingual and strong on code.

Question 2

When was Mistral Large 2 released?

Accepted Answer

Mistral Large 2 was released by Mistral on 24 July 2024.

Question 3

How much does Mistral Large 2 cost?

Accepted Answer

Mistral Large 2 costs $2.00 per 1 million input tokens and $6.00 per 1 million output tokens via Mistral’s API. At a typical 3:1 input/output ratio the blended cost works out to about $3.00 per 1M tokens.

Question 4

How smart is Mistral Large 2?

Accepted Answer

Mistral Large 2 scores 60 out of 100 on our intelligence index — a capable mid-tier composite of MMLU, MMLU Pro, GPQA, MATH and HumanEval benchmark scores. That places it #18 of 22 language models we track.

Question 5

What is the context window of Mistral Large 2?

Accepted Answer

Mistral Large 2 has a 128k-token context window — roughly 96,000 words of text. That’s what you can fit into a single request (your prompt plus all uploaded documents and the model’s response combined).

Question 6

What is Mistral Large 2 best for?

Accepted Answer

Mistral Large 2 is most useful for eu compliance, multilingual apps and code tooling. Its key strengths are eu data residency, strong multilingual and good code.

Question 7

How fast is Mistral Large 2?

Accepted Answer

Mistral Large 2 generates around 70 output tokens per second with a typical time-to-first-token of 600 ms on the major API providers. Reasoning models that "think" before answering will appear slower on tokens-per-second since they spend time on internal chain-of-thought.

Question 8

Is Mistral Large 2 better than Claude 4 Opus?

Accepted Answer

Claude 4 Opus scores higher on our intelligence index (81 vs 60), so on the hardest tasks Claude 4 Opus typically wins. Mistral Large 2 can still be the better pick on price, latency or specific capabilities. See our full Mistral Large 2 vs Claude 4 Opus comparison at /ai-models/compare/claude-4-opus-vs-mistral-large-2/.

Question 9

What is the best alternative to Mistral Large 2?

Accepted Answer

The closest alternatives to Mistral Large 2 are Claude 4 Opus, GPT-5.5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. Each shares most of Mistral Large 2’s use-cases — pick by price, context window or specific capability rather than headline intelligence.

Question 10

Is Mistral Large 2 open source?

Accepted Answer

No. Mistral Large 2 is proprietary — the weights are not released. Access is via Mistral’s own API and partner platforms. For open-weights alternatives in the same tier, see our open-source AI models page.

Question 11

Can I use Mistral Large 2 for free?

Accepted Answer

Mistral offers a free tier on Le Chat (chat.mistral.ai) with daily limits. The Mistral API is paid. Open-source Mistral models (including Mistral Small) can be self-hosted for free.

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