Mistral Large 4 API price, and what each result really costs
Mistral, listed 6 Oct 2026. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it. Source: OpenRouter. mistralai/mistral-large-4
List price per million tokens
- Input
- $0.70
- Cached input
- $0.07
- Output
- $2.10
- Context window
- 1.05M tokens
Note: Price of Mistral's own endpoint on OpenRouter. mistral.ai/pricing no longer shows a per-model API table (its FAQ example says 'Mistral Large $0.5/$1.5', which matches Large 3). Some third-party sites report a $1.36/$4.18 list price; unverified.
What it costs per task, and per task that works
Six common task shapes with typical token counts. The real cost counts the tries that get redone; the rates are examples, not measurements.
| Task | Per 1,000 tries | Per 1,000 that work, 8 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 6 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 4 in 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support bot answer3,000 in / 300 out | $2.73 | $3.41 | $4.55 | $6.82 |
| Invoice field extraction2,500 in / 250 out | $2.28 | $2.84 | $3.79 | $5.69 |
| Lead scoring1,200 in / 100 out | $1.05 | $1.31 | $1.75 | $2.63 |
| Email reply draft1,500 in / 400 out | $1.89 | $2.36 | $3.15 | $4.73 |
| Translation900 in / 800 out | $2.31 | $2.89 | $3.85 | $5.77 |
| Search re-ranking4,000 in / 50 out | $2.91 | $3.63 | $4.84 | $7.26 |
Work out your own real cost per resultTest Mistral Large 4 on your own prompt
Compare Mistral Large 4 with
- Mistral Small 4$0.15 in / $0.60 outSwitch cost
- Mistral Medium 3.5$1.50 in / $7.50 outSwitch cost
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite$0.30 in / $2.50 outSwitch cost
- Gemini 2.5 Flash$0.30 in / $2.50 outSwitch cost
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct$0.71 in / $0.71 outSwitch cost
Worked-through switches: Mistral Medium 3.5 → Mistral Large 4: cost and quality on real tasks
Questions
How much does the Mistral Large 4 API cost?
$0.70 per million input tokens and $2.10 per million output tokens, or $0.07 per million for cached input. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it.
What does a result that works really cost with Mistral Large 4?
A support bot answer (about 3,000 tokens in, 300 out) costs $0.0027 per try. If 6 in 10 work first time, each answer that works really costs $0.0046, because the redone ones were paid for too.