Mistral Large 4 Opens Its Weights, Becoming the Top Non-Chinese Open-Source Model

Mistral Large 4 is now open weights, narrowly making it the #1 open weights model developed outside of China

@MistralAI has updated and released the weights of their flagship model, Mistral Large 4, with 1.05T total and 52B active parameters. With high reasoning, Mistral Large 4 scores 26 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, up 1 point from Mistral Large 4 Preview (25), with the major differences being increased token efficiency and reduced hallucinations. It sits 1 point ahead of the leading US-developed open weights model, Muse Spark Open (xhigh, 25).

On the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index, Mistral Large 4 (high) scores 51, third among current open weights models behind DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max, 57) and MiMo-V2.6-Pro (56).

Key takeaways:

➤ Narrowly leads non-Chinese open weights models: Mistral Large 4 (high) leads Muse Spark Open (xhigh), the next-best open weights model developed outside China, with the largest gap on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (25% vs. 8%). It trails leading open weights models DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max) and GLM-5.3 (max) by 6 points on the Intelligence Index, largely due to weaker coding and agentic knowledge work performance: 15% on FrontierCode 2.0 (vs. 29% and 22%, respectively) and 1349 Elo on AA-Briefcase (vs. 1570 and 1504)

➤ Increased token efficiency: Mistral Large 4 (high) uses 82K output tokens per Intelligence Index task, 39% fewer than Preview (135K), placing it on the open weights Pareto frontier. The seven open weights models that score higher use between 113K and 225K output tokens per task

➤ #2 open weights model on the Coding Agent Index: On the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, Mistral Large 4 (high) scores 48 in Mistral Vibe while using 8.5M tokens per task, about half as many as the leading open weights model GLM-5.3 (max) in Opencode (49, 15.9M). It also scores above another leading open weights model, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max), in DeepSeek Harness (46, 16.7M)

➤ Reduced hallucinations: Mistral Large 4 (high) has a 28% hallucination rate on the updated AA-Omniscience v1.1, down from 41% for Preview and matching Muse Spark Open (xhigh). However, its accuracy remains relatively low at 26%, similar to Ling 3.1 Flash 1019 (27%), and behind DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max, 40%) and Muse Spark Open (xhigh, 42%)

➤ Lower price and cost per task than the Preview: Mistral Large 4 is priced at $0.70/$2.10 per 1M input/output tokens, a ~50% reduction from the Preview's pricing of $1.36/$4.18. At the new pricing, it costs $2.06 per Intelligence Index task, down 63% from $5.54 for the Preview. This is comparable to Muse Spark Open (xhigh, $2.02) but more costly than leading open weights models DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max, $0.60) and MiMo-V2.6-Pro ($0.26)

Key model details:

➤ Size: 1.05T total parameters / 52B active parameters

➤ Context window: 1M tokens

➤ Multimodality: Text and image input, text output

➤ Pricing: $0.70/$2.10 per 1M input/output tokens ($0.07 per 1M cached input tokens)

➤ License: MEOW License (Mistral Ecosystem Open-Weight License), where operating a Model-as-a-Service business requires a separate commercial license with Mistral

Congratulations to the team at @MistralAI on the release!