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Best cheaper alternatives to Mistral Large 3

Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Mistral Large 3 by Mistral AI? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 18 options are meaningfully cheaper.

Category: LLM 128K context
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B91% CHEAPER
Google
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Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash83% CHEAPER
Google
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Together AI
Qwen3.5 9B85% CHEAPER
Together AI
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Google
Gemini 2.0 Flash77% CHEAPER
Google
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Groq
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k92% CHEAPER
Groq
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Meta
Llama 3.1 8B93% CHEAPER
Meta
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Meta
Llama 3.2 11B Vision93% CHEAPER
Meta
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Google
Imagen 495% CHEAPER
Google
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Alibaba Cloud
Qwen Image Plus96% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
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Alibaba Cloud
Qwen2.5 3B Instruct91% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
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Alibaba Cloud
Qwen Image MAX90% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
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Writer
Palmyra Vision100% CHEAPER
Writer
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Alibaba Cloud
Qwen Turbo88% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
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Alibaba Cloud
Qwen 7B88% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
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Together AI
GPT OSS 20B88% CHEAPER
Together AI
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Mistral AI
Ministral 3 3B87% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
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Mistral AI
Ministral 387% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
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Mistral AI
Ministral87% CHEAPER
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Costs are normalised to a blended 1M-token workload (or per-unit price for non-token models) using each model's latest verified pricing. Models with pricing under review are excluded from recommendations.