# Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct vs Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3 is not currently in the Allocate serving catalog, so this page lists no prices for it: every price on this site comes from the live catalog.

## Specifications

| | Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct | Mistral Large 3 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Meta | Mistral |
| Access | Open weights | Not served on Allocate |
| Context window | 4K tokens | n/a |
| List price, input | $3.50 / M tokens | Not served |
| List price, output | $3.50 / M tokens | Not served |
| Cached input | n/a | n/a |
| License | Llama community | Proprietary API |
| Fine-tunable | Yes | No |

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## 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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