AllocateMeta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct vs Mistral Large 3
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Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Mistral Large 3LabMetaMistral
AccessOpen weightsNot served on Allocate
Context window4K tokensn/a
List price, input$3.5 / M tokensNot served
List price, output$3.5 / M tokensNot served
Cached inputn/an/a
LicenseLlama communityProprietary API
Fine-tunableYesNo
Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-21.
Choose Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct for
- Open weights you can fine-tune and own
Choose Mistral Large 3 for
- EU data-residency workloads
- Structured outputs
- Function calling
Common questions
Which has the bigger context window?
Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct: 4,096 tokens (4K) against an unlisted window for Mistral Large 3.
Can I fine-tune Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct or Mistral Large 3?
Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct publishes open weights (Llama community) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. Mistral Large 3 is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.
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