# MiniMax M3 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

| | MiniMax M3 | Mistral Large 3 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | MiniMaxAI | Mistral |
| Access | API only | Not served on Allocate |
| Context window | 512K tokens | n/a |
| List price, input | $0.30 / M tokens | Not served |
| List price, output | $1.20 / M tokens | Not served |
| Cached input | $0.06 / M tokens | n/a |
| License | Proprietary API | Proprietary API |
| Fine-tunable | No | No |

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

## Choose MiniMax M3 for

- Published cached-input pricing ($0.06 per M tokens)

## Choose Mistral Large 3 for

- EU data-residency workloads
- Structured outputs
- Function calling

## Common questions

### Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M3: 524,288 tokens (512K) against an unlisted window for Mistral Large 3.

### Can I fine-tune MiniMax M3 or Mistral Large 3?

No. Both are closed models served over API. If you want a model you can train and own, start from an open-weights base in the catalog.

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