From our family of large models, Mistral Large 3 is a state-of-the-art general-purpose Multimodal granular Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters and 675B total parameters trained from scratch with 3000 H200s.
This model is the base pre-trained version, not fine-tuned for instruction or reasoning tasks, making it ideal for custom post-training processes.
Designed for reliability and long-context comprehension - It is engineered for production-grade assistants, retrieval-augmented systems, scientific workloads, and complex enterprise workflows.
Mistral Large 3 Instruct is deployable on-premises in:
Mistral Large 3 consists of two main architectural components:
A Granular MoE Language Model with 673B params and 39B active
A 2.5B Vision Encoder
The Mistral Large 3 Base model offers the following capabilities:
Vision: Enables the model to analyze images and provide insights based on visual content, in addition to text.
Multilingual: Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic.
Frontier: Delivers best-in-class performance.
Apache 2.0 License: Open-source license allowing usage and modification for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Large Context Window: Supports a 256k context window.
Use Cases
With powerful long-context performance, stable and consistent cross-domain behavior, Mistral Large 3 is perfect for:
Long Document Understanding
Powerful Daily-Driver AI Assistants
State-of-the-Art Agentic and Tool-Use Capabilities
Enterprise Knowledge Work
General Coding Assistant
And enterprise-grade use cases requiring frontier capabilities.
Recommended Settings
We recommend deploying Large 3 in a client-server configuration with the following best practices:
System Prompt: Define a clear environment and use case, including guidance on how to effectively leverage tools in agentic systems.
Sampling Parameters: Use a temperature below 0.1 for daily-driver and production environments ; Higher temperatures may be explored for creative use cases - developers are encouraged to experiment with alternative settings.
Tools: Keep the set of tools well-defined and limit their number to the minimum required for the use case - Avoiding overloading the model with an excessive number of tools.
Vision: When deploying with vision capabilities, we recommend maintaining an aspect ratio close to 1:1 (width-to-height) for images. Avoiding the use of overly thin or wide images - crop them as needed to ensure optimal performance.
Known Issues / Limitations
Not a dedicated reasoning model: Dedicated reasoning models can outperform Mistral Large 3 in strict reasoning use cases.
Behind vision-first models in multimodal tasks: Mistral Large 3 can lag behind models optimized for vision tasks and use cases.
Complex deployment: Due to its large size and architecture, the model can be challenging to deploy efficiently with constrained resources or at scale.
Benchmark Results
We compare Mistral Large 3 to similar sized models.
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Instruct Usage
The Instruct model can be used with the following frameworks;
The Mistral Large 3 Instruct FP8 format can be used on one 8xH200 node. We recommend to use this format if you plan to fine-tuning as it can be more precise than NVFP4 in some situations.
enable-auto-tool-choice: Required when enabling tool usage.
tool-call-parser mistral: Required when enabling tool usage.
Additional flags:
You can set --max-model-len to preserve memory. By default it is set to 262144 which is quite large but not necessary for most scenarios.
You can set --max-num-batched-tokens to balance throughput and latency, higher means higher throughput but higher latency.
Usage of the model
Here we asumme that the model mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512 is served and you can ping it to the domain localhost with the port 8000 which is the default for vLLM.
Vision Reasoning
Let's see if Mistral Large 3 knows when to pick a fight !
python
1from datetime import datetime, timedelta
23from openai import OpenAI
4from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
56# Modify OpenAI's API key and API base to use vLLM's API server.7openai_api_key ="EMPTY"8openai_api_base ="http://localhost:8000/v1"910TEMP =0.1511MAX_TOK =2621441213client = OpenAI(14 api_key=openai_api_key,15 base_url=openai_api_base,16)1718models = client.models.list()19model = models.data[0].id202122defload_system_prompt(repo_id:str, filename:str)->str:23 file_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=filename)24withopen(file_path,"r")asfile:25 system_prompt =file.read()26 today = datetime.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")27 yesterday =(datetime.today()- timedelta(days=1)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")28 model_name = repo_id.split("/")[-1]29return system_prompt.format(name=model_name, today=today, yesterday=yesterday)303132SYSTEM_PROMPT = load_system_prompt(model,"SYSTEM_PROMPT.txt")33image_url ="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/essentialsdocs/images/7/70/Battle.png/revision/latest?cb=20220523172438"3435messages =[36{"role":"system","content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},37{38"role":"user",39"content":[40{41"type":"text",42"text":"What action do you think I should take in this situation? List all the possible actions and explain why you think they are good or bad.",43},44{"type":"image_url","image_url":{"url": image_url}},45],46},47]484950response = client.chat.completions.create(51 model=model,52 messages=messages,53 temperature=TEMP,54 max_tokens=MAX_TOK,55)5657print(response.choices[0].message.content)
Function Calling
Let's solve some equations thanks to our simple Python calculator tool.
python
1import json
2from openai import OpenAI
3from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
45# Modify OpenAI's API key and API base to use vLLM's API server.6openai_api_key ="EMPTY"7openai_api_base ="http://localhost:8000/v1"89TEMP =0.1510MAX_TOK =2621441112client = OpenAI(13 api_key=openai_api_key,14 base_url=openai_api_base,15)1617models = client.models.list()18model = models.data[0].id192021defload_system_prompt(repo_id:str, filename:str)->str:22 file_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=filename)23withopen(file_path,"r")asfile:24 system_prompt =file.read()25return system_prompt
262728SYSTEM_PROMPT = load_system_prompt(model,"SYSTEM_PROMPT.txt")2930image_url ="https://math-coaching.com/img/fiche/46/expressions-mathematiques.jpg"313233defmy_calculator(expression:str)->str:34returnstr(eval(expression))353637tools =[38{39"type":"function",40"function":{41"name":"my_calculator",42"description":"A calculator that can evaluate a mathematical equation and compute its results.",43"parameters":{44"type":"object",45"properties":{46"expression":{47"type":"string",48"description":"The mathematical expression to evaluate.",49},50},51"required":["expression"],52},53},54},55{56"type":"function",57"function":{58"name":"rewrite",59"description":"Rewrite a given text for improved clarity",60"parameters":{61"type":"object",62"properties":{63"text":{64"type":"string",65"description":"The input text to rewrite",66}67},68},69},70},71]7273messages =[74{"role":"system","content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},75{76"role":"user",77"content":[78{79"type":"text",80"text":"Thanks to your calculator, compute the results for the equations that involve numbers displayed in the image.",81},82{83"type":"image_url",84"image_url":{85"url": image_url,86},87},88],89},90]9192response = client.chat.completions.create(93 model=model,94 messages=messages,95 temperature=TEMP,96 max_tokens=MAX_TOK,97 tools=tools,98 tool_choice="auto",99)100101tool_calls = response.choices[0].message.tool_calls
102103results =[]104for tool_call in tool_calls:105 function_name = tool_call.function.name
106 function_args = tool_call.function.arguments
107if function_name =="my_calculator":108 result = my_calculator(**json.loads(function_args))109 results.append(result)110111messages.append({"role":"assistant","tool_calls": tool_calls})112for tool_call, result inzip(tool_calls, results):113 messages.append(114{115"role":"tool",116"tool_call_id": tool_call.id,117"name": tool_call.function.name,118"content": result,119}120)121122123response = client.chat.completions.create(124 model=model,125 messages=messages,126 temperature=TEMP,127 max_tokens=MAX_TOK,128)129130print(response.choices[0].message.content)
Text-Only Request
Mistral Large 3 can follow your instructions down to the letter.
python
1from openai import OpenAI
2from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
34# Modify OpenAI's API key and API base to use vLLM's API server.5openai_api_key ="EMPTY"6openai_api_base ="http://localhost:8000/v1"78TEMP =0.159MAX_TOK =2621441011client = OpenAI(12 api_key=openai_api_key,13 base_url=openai_api_base,14)1516models = client.models.list()17model = models.data[0].id181920defload_system_prompt(repo_id:str, filename:str)->str:21 file_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=filename)22withopen(file_path,"r")asfile:23 system_prompt =file.read()24return system_prompt
252627SYSTEM_PROMPT = load_system_prompt(model,"SYSTEM_PROMPT.txt")2829messages =[30{"role":"system","content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},31{32"role":"user",33"content":"Write me a sentence where every word starts with the next letter in the alphabet - start with 'a' and end with 'z'.",34},35]3637response = client.chat.completions.create(38 model=model,39 messages=messages,40 temperature=TEMP,41 max_tokens=MAX_TOK,42)4344assistant_message = response.choices[0].message.content
45print(assistant_message)
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