Llama 3.3 70B vs Mistral Large 3

List-price comparison · Llama 3.3 70B details · Mistral Large 3 details

For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama 3.3 70B costs 79% less — $24.80/mo vs $120.00/mo.

	Llama 3.3 70B	Mistral Large 3
Input / 1M tokens	$0.100	$0.500
Output / 1M tokens	$0.320	$1.50
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)	$0.0002	$0.0012
Context window	131,072 tokens	262,144 tokens
Max output	16,384 tokens	—
Tier	Flash	Balanced
Provider	Meta	Mistral AI

Projected monthly cost

1,000 requests / month$0.248 vs $1.20 10,000 requests / month$2.48 vs $12.00 100,000 requests / month$24.80 vs $120.00

Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.

Llama 3.3 70B

Mature, well-supported open-weight model for general chat and lightweight agents — wide availability across inference providers keeps pricing competitive.

Falls behind newer flagship models on complex reasoning and coding — best suited to well-scoped, repetitive tasks.

Mistral Large 3

Solid multilingual and coding performance with a 256K context window — popular for European-data-residency deployments via self-hosting.

Ecosystem and tooling support is smaller than OpenAI/Anthropic — fewer turnkey integrations and community examples.

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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.