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Mistral Large 3 vs MiniMax M2

Side-by-side specs, pricing and capabilities. Both models run on Clade under one subscription, so you can switch between them in the same conversation.

Mistral Large 3 comes from Mistral and MiniMax M2 from MiniMax. The practical difference for most people is context, price, and which input types each one accepts.

Mistral Large 3 holds more in a single conversation — 256K tokens against 197K — which matters for long documents and large codebases.

MiniMax M2 is the cheaper of the two on input tokens at $0.30 / 1M tokens.

SpecificationMistral Large 3MiniMax M2
ProviderMistralMiniMax
Model IDmistral-large-2512MiniMax-M2
Context window256K197K
Max output8K10K
Input price$0.50 / 1M tokens$0.30 / 1M tokens
Output price$1.50 / 1M tokens$1.00 / 1M tokens
Knowledge cutoff——
Input typestext, image, file, audiotext, image, file
Output typestexttext
PlanFreeFree

Which should you use?

Pick Mistral Large 3 when…

  • You need the larger context window — 256K against 197K.
  • You need audio input, which the other model does not accept.
Mistral Large 3 details

Pick MiniMax M2 when…

  • Cost matters: input runs at $0.30 / 1M tokens versus $0.50 / 1M tokens.
  • You want longer single responses — up to 10K output tokens.
MiniMax M2 details

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Try both on Clade

You do not have to choose. One Clade subscription gives you Mistral Large 3, MiniMax M2, and every other model on the platform.