Mistral AI · Open-weight
Checked as of 2026-10-23
Mistral
A full size ladder from 3B to 675B, nearly all Apache-2.0 and none of it gated.
At a glance
- Licence
- Open source Apache-2.0 (Medium 3.5: Modified MIT)
Apache-2.0 for Large 3, Small 4 and Ministral 3. The exception is Mistral Medium 3.5: its Modified MIT licence removes all rights from companies whose monthly revenue exceeded US$20M. Treat that one as restricted.
- Access
- APIBedrockSageMaker JumpStartHF
- Hugging Face
- huggingface.co/mistralai
Variants 5
| Model | Params | Context | Hardware tier | Gated | Inputs | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mistral Medium 3.5
mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B
Dense. Modified MIT licence with a US$20M monthly revenue cap. |
128B | 262.144K | Multi-GPU ml.p5.48xlarge and up | No | text, image | current |
Mistral Large 3
mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512
Apache-2.0. On Bedrock. The card also says 39B active. |
675B41B active | 262.144K | Multi-GPU ml.p5.48xlarge and up | No | text, image | current |
Mistral Small 4
mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603
Apache-2.0. Context per the card; config.json says 1,048,576. |
119B6.5B active | 262.144K | Multi-GPU ml.p5.48xlarge and up | No | text, image | current |
Ministral 3 14B
mistralai/Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512
Dense, Apache-2.0. On Bedrock. |
13.9B | 262.144K | 40GB GPU ml.g5.12xlarge / ml.p4d.24xlarge | No | text, image | current |
Ministral 3 3B
mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512
Dense, Apache-2.0. On Bedrock and JumpStart. Size from HF safetensors metadata. |
3.9B | 262.144K | 16GB GPU ml.g4dn.xlarge / ml.g5.xlarge | No | text, image | current |
"—" means the figure could not be verified from a primary source on 2026-10-23 and has been left blank rather than guessed. Hardware tier is from total parameters (all experts for mixture-of-experts models), since every weight must sit in memory. SageMaker rates on the open-weight page.
Strengths
- Apache-2.0 right up to the 675B Large 3 flagship.
- Every listed repo is ungated, and every listed model takes image input with a 256K context.
- Small 4 is an efficient mixture-of-experts model: 119B total, 6.5B active per token.
- Ministral 3 3B and 14B are small enough for a single small GPU and are on Bedrock.
Watch out for
- Medium 3.5, the newest general model, is not Apache-2.0. Check the revenue cap before using it in a large company.
- Bedrock carries Large 3 and Ministral 3, not Medium 3.5 or Small 4.
- The Large 3 card gives two active-parameter figures (41B and 39B).