Mistral Large 3
Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights
The catch: 675B parameters needs a multi-GPU node, and the card recommends a temperature below 0.1 for production use.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 675B total / 41B active (granular MoE) with image input and a 256K-token context; needs a multi-GPU node. Apache 2.0, no caps. |
| Modality | text, code, image |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Apache-2.0 |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens |
| Model id | mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512 |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use Mistral Large 3
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Quickstart
vllm serve mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512 --max-model-len 262144 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --tokenizer_mode mistral --config_format mistral --load_format mistral --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser mistral
Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "Mistral Large 3" (mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- 675B parameters needs a multi-GPU node, and the card recommends a temperature below 0.1 for production use.
- Apache-2.0 (licence tag on the HF repo; the card says it allows commercial and non-commercial use): use, modify, distribute and sell, including commercially; keep the licence and notices when you redistribute.
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Mistral Large 3 free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Apache-2.0. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Mistral Large 3 commercially?
Yes, under Apache-2.0. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Mistral Large 3?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Source: huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512, checked 8 Oct 2026.