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Mistral Large 3
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API guide
Chat completion
Standard chat through TheRouter's OpenAI-compatible surface. Mistral Large 3 is a general-purpose chat model; the OpenAI SDK works with only a baseURL swap.
cURL
curl https://api.therouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $THEROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistral/mistral-large-3",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain sparse MoE architectures to a junior developer."}]
}'Streaming
Stream tokens for chat UIs. Large 3's MoE architecture keeps first-token latency competitive even at the full 256K context.
cURL
curl https://api.therouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $THEROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistral/mistral-large-3",
"stream": true,
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Write a 50-word haiku about GPU clusters."}]
}'Tool use
Mistral Large 3 supports OpenAI-shape function calling and tool_choice via TheRouter's normalised surface.
cURL
curl https://api.therouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $THEROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistral/mistral-large-3",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the weather in Paris?"}],
"tools": [{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "get_weather",
"parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"city": {"type": "string"}}}
}
}]
}'Structured JSON
Constrain output to JSON via response_format. Large 3 follows explicit shape contracts reliably.
cURL
curl https://api.therouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $THEROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistral/mistral-large-3",
"response_format": {"type": "json_object"},
"messages": [
{"role": "system", "content": "Return JSON with fields: name, age, department."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Extract employee info from this email..."}
]
}'Self-host
Large 3 weights are downloadable from Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. NVFP4 quantization and Blackwell-optimised kernels enable deployment on a single 8ΓGPU node. Reference inference via vLLM or SGLang.
cURL
# Reference vLLM launch. See HF model card for exact tensor-parallel sizing.
python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
--model mistralai/Mistral-Large-3 \
--tensor-parallel-size 8 \
--port 8000
# Then call it through TheRouter as model="mistral/mistral-large-3"
# with TheRouter configured to use your self-hosted endpoint as the upstream.Fact ledger β every claim on this page traces here
| source | URL | retrieved | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | docs.mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| Context window | docs.mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| License | mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| Training infrastructure | mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| Languages | www.digitalapplied.com β | 2026-05-28 | to verify |
| Quantization / self-host efficiency | mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| MMLU (8-language) | mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| HumanEval (Pass@1) | www.digitalapplied.com β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| MATH-500 | www.digitalapplied.com β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| MMLU-Pro | www.digitalapplied.com β | 2026-05-28 | to verify |
| GPQA Diamond | www.digitalapplied.com β | 2026-05-28 | to verify |
| LMArena (open-source non-reasoning) | mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| Mistral AI releases Mistral 3 family β Mistral Large 3 (675B MoE) under Apache 2.0 | mistral.ai/news β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| Mistral Large 3 model card published on docs.mistral.ai and Hugging Face | docs.mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | verified |
| What is the difference between Mistral Large 3 (675B) and the smaller Mistral models? | mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | to verify |
| Can I self-host Mistral Large 3? | huggingface.co β | 2026-05-28 | to verify |
| What is the licensing for Mistral Large 3? | mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | to verify |
| Does Mistral Large 3 support image input? | docs.mistral.ai β | 2026-05-28 | to verify |