Catalog Systems Foundation models (substrate reference) Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family

Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-2407/

French frontier-model lab (Paris). Family includes Mistral Large 2 (123B dense, Jul-2024), Mixtral 8x22B (open-weights MoE), Mistral Small 3 (24B, open-weights Jan-2025), Codestral (code specialist). EU-headquartered alternative to US/China model labs; GDPR-friendly data residency. Distinct from the Mistral Le Chat memory feature (already in catalog) — this row covers the model family itself as substrate.

Active · Verified 2026-10-31 · fresh as of 2026-10-31 · 38 cited facts, 3 with a third-party source · 3 recorded changes · Suggest a correction

At a glance

Type
Frontier model family — Mistral Large 2 + Mixtral 8x22B + Mistral Small 3 vendor fix
Tier
T1
Section
Foundation models (substrate reference)
Created
2023-04 (Mistral AI founded); 2023-09 (Mistral 7B); 2023-12 (Mixtral 8x7B); 2024-04 (Mixtral 8x22B); 2024-07 (Large 2); 2025-01 (Small 3) vendor fix
Latest release
Mistral Medium 3.5 (2026-04-29); Mistral Large 4 in public preview (2026-10), weights not yet released third-party fix
License
Mixed: Mistral Research License MRL-0.1, non-OSI (Mistral Large 2 / 2407 and 2411 weights; commercial use needs a separate licence); Mistral Non-Production License (Codestral 22B); Modified MIT (Medium 3.5 weights); Apache-2.0 (Mixtral 8x22B, Small / Large 3 / other open models); some models API-only proprietary registry fix
GitHub
github.com/mistralai/mistral-inference + various model repos; cumulative ~30k+ stars vendor fix
Pricing
API: Mistral Medium 3.5 $1.50 in / $7.50 out per 1M; Mistral Large 3 $0.50 / $1.50; batch 50% off; open weights free third-party fix
Funding
€2.4B+ total raised (~$2.7B USD); €11.7B valuation Series C Sept-2025 (ASML lead); a16z, General Catalyst, DST, Lightspeed, Nvidia investors vendor fix
Freshness
2026-10-31 fix
Layer
large-models repo fix
Licensing
open-core vendor fix
Deployment locus
hybrid vendor fix
Platform vs product
platform vendor fix
SDK languages
python, rest, typescript vendor fix
Compliance
iso27001, iso27701, soc2-type2 vendor fix

When to use

Optimised for: EU-hosted enterprise; sovereign AI for European governments; cost-effective hybrid (open + commercial) family

Anti-fit: not for users needing absolute frontier capability (lags Claude/GPT/Gemini on most benchmarks); not for non-Apache OSS users who want weight openness on Large 2

Pros & cons

Pros

Strongest EU AI-sovereignty story (Paris-HQ, GDPR-native, French gov customer); Apache 2.0 open weights for Mixtral / Small / Codestral; €2.7B raised at €11.7B valuation.

Cons

Trails US/China frontier labs on raw benchmarks; Large 2 not open-weights; smaller training-compute budget; multimodal less mature than peers.

Claims & capabilities

Mistral Large 2: 123B dense, 128k ctx, MMLU 84%; Mixtral 8x22B open-weights (Apache 2.0); Mistral Small 3 24B open-weights matches Llama 3.3 70B; EU-hosted by default; €11.7B valuation Sept-2025

Technical surface

API surface
REST + SDK (Python, JS); HuggingFace Transformers for open-weights; Azure AI Foundry; AWS Bedrock; GCP Vertex
Backend storage
not applicable — substrate foundation model
Deployment
Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — La Plateforme / Mistral Studio API, open weights for self-hosting, plus Azure / AWS / GCP marketplaces
Embedding model
not applicable — not a memory product
Multi-tenancy
not applicable — substrate foundation model
MCP
not applicable — substrate foundation model
A2A
not applicable — substrate foundation model
OpenTelemetry
not applicable — substrate foundation model

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What changed

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  1. 2026-10-29
    • License “Mixed: Modified MIT (Medium 3.5 weights); Apache-2.0 (Small / Large 3 / other open models); some models API-only proprietary” → “Mixed: Mistral Research License MRL-0.1, non-OSI (Mistral Large 2 / 2407 and 2411 weights; commercial use needs a separate licence); Mistral Non-Production License (Codestral 22B); Modified MIT (Medium 3.5 weights); Apache-2.0 (Mixtral 8x22B, Small / Large 3 / other open models); some models API-onl” source
    #307
  2. 2026-10-29
    • Homepage “https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-2/” → “https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-2407/”
    #305
  3. 2026-10-26
    • License “Apache 2.0 (Mixtral / Small 3 / Codestral); proprietary (Large 2 / Pixtral Large)” → “Mixed: Modified MIT (Medium 3.5 weights); Apache-2.0 (Small / Large 3 / other open models); some models API-only proprietary” source
    • Latest release “Mistral Large 2.1 (2025-Q1); Mistral Small 3 (2025-01); Codestral 2 (2025)” → “Mistral Medium 3.5 (2026-04-29); Mistral Large 4 in public preview (2026-10), weights not yet released” source
    • Pricing “API: Mistral Large 2 $2/$6 per 1M; Small 3 free / $0.10-$0.30; Apache 2.0 open weights for Mixtral + Small + Codestral; Enterprise Mistral Forge on-prem” → “API: Mistral Medium 3.5 $1.50 in / $7.50 out per 1M; Mistral Large 3 $0.50 / $1.50; batch 50% off; open weights free” source
    • Deployment “Managed cloud (La Plateforme) + on-prem (Mistral Forge enterprise) + open-weights (Apache 2.0 for Mixtral + Small + Codestral) + Azure / AWS / GCP hosted” → “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — La Plateforme / Mistral Studio API, open weights for self-hosting, plus Azure / AWS / GCP marketplaces” source
    #258

Related systems

References (2)

  • Azure Machine Learning depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Mistral Le Chat consumer (separate row); Codestral for code agents; Mistral Forge on-prem; AWS Bedrock / Azure AI distribution
  • Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Mistral Le Chat consumer (separate row); Codestral for code agents; Mistral Forge on-prem; AWS Bedrock / Azure AI distribution

Referenced by (43)

  • Agent Router (formerly Envoy AI Gateway) integrates with — Agent Router supported-providers page lists Mistral. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • agentgateway integrates with — agentgateway integrations docs have a Mistral AI provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Arize Phoenix integrates with — Arize Phoenix docs have a Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • AutoGen / AG2 integrates with — AG2 model configuration docs list Mistral as a supported model provider with a config example. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Bifrost (Maxim AI) integrates with — Bifrost supported-providers docs have a provider page for Mistral. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Braintrust integrates with — Braintrust docs have a Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Cloudflare AI Gateway integrates with — Cloudflare AI Gateway docs have a Mistral AI provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Comet ML integrates with — Comet's Opik docs have a Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • CrewAI integrates with — CrewAI LLM docs include a Mistral provider configuration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Datadog Agent Observability (LLM Observability) integrates with — Datadog LLM Observability auto-instrumentation page lists a MistralAI LLM integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Elasticsearch integrates with — Elastic Search Labs has a Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Haystack (framework) integrates with — Haystack integrations directory has a Mistral integration page ("Use the Mistral API for embedding and text generation models"). (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Inspect AI integrates with — Inspect AI model-providers page documents a Mistral provider. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Kong AI Gateway integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a Mistral AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • LangChain (framework) integrates with — LangChain docs have a MistralAI integration provider page (Efficient open-source language models). (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Langflow integrates with — Langflow components bundle: MistralAI language model component. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • LangSmith integrates with — LangSmith docs have a tracing integration page for Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Letta / MemGPT integrates with — Letta models docs list Mistral in the supported model provider table. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • LiteLLM integrates with — LiteLLM docs have a Mistral AI provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • LiveKit Agents integrates with — LiveKit Agents docs have a Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family model plugin page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — LlamaIndex has an official LLM integration package llama-index-llms-mistralai in its repo. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Mem0 integrates with — Mem0 docs have a Mistral AI LLM provider page for Mem0 open source. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Microsoft Semantic Kernel integrates with — Semantic Kernel chat completion docs list a Mistral AI service connector. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Milvus integrates with — Milvus's integrations overview lists a Milvus + Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integration tutorial. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Mistral Agents API depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: self-contained Mistral platform
  • Mistral Embed depends on at runtime — available via Mistral La Plateforme and Azure AI.
  • Mistral Vibe (Remote Agents) + Mistral Medium 3.5 depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: requires Mistral la Plateforme + Le Chat; integrates GitHub/Linear/Jira/Sentry/Slack/Teams; NVIDIA NIM containers for self-host
  • n8n (AI agent flows) integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Mistral Cloud Chat Model node. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • OpenInference integrates with — The OpenInference repo README lists an OpenInference instrumentation package for Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • OpenLLMetry (Traceloop) integrates with — OpenLLMetry's What's Supported page lists Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family as instrumented out of the box. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • OpenRouter integrates with — OpenRouter lists Mistral as an inference provider (providers API slug "mistral"). (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Phidata (now Agno) integrates with — Agno ships a mistral model provider module (agno.models.mistral). (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Pipecat (Daily) integrates with — Pipecat docs have a Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family service page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Mistral AI LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Pydantic-AI integrates with — Pydantic AI docs have a Mistral model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Strands Agents (AWS) integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a Mistral model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • TrueFoundry AI Gateway integrates with — TrueFoundry AI Gateway docs have a Mistral AI model-provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Vapi integrates with — Vapi docs list Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family as a provider/integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Vercel AI Gateway integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway model directory has a Mistral Large 4 model page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Vercel AI SDK integrates with — AI SDK docs have a Mistral AI official AI SDK provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Weaviate integrates with — Weaviate's integrations / model-provider docs list Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family as an integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
  • Weights & Biases integrates with — W&B Weave docs have a Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)