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Mistral Large 4
Mistral AI · Mistral Large
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4 on October 5, 2026.
Mistral Large 4 is the Mistral AI model released in public preview on October 5, 2026 as mistral-large-4. It is an open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a granular mixture-of-experts architecture: 52B active parameters, 1.05T total parameters and a 1.6B vision encoder, with a 1M token context window. It supports structured outputs, function calling, document Q&A, batching, Agents and Conversations, and built-in tools. Mistral launched it at 50% off for the first two weeks and said the open weights are coming soon.
Mistral Large 4 at a glance
- Released
- API model id
mistral-large-4- Available on
- Mistral API
- Previous model
- Mistral Large 3 (December 2, 2025)
- Announcement
- docs.mistral.ai
What changed from Mistral Large 3
Compared with Mistral Large 3 (41B active of 675B total parameters), Large 4 is a much larger mixture-of-experts model with 52B active of 1.05T total parameters, adds a dedicated 1.6B vision encoder, and has a 1M token context window.
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Mistral Large 4 release timeline
The launch and every later Mistral AI release that mentions Mistral Large 4, oldest first.
- Mistral Large 4 (mistral-large-4) Public Preview
Mistral Large 4 is an open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a Mixture-of-Experts architecture and a 1M context window. Open weights are coming soon. Launch pricing: 50% off for 2 weeks.
Source: Mistral Docs Changelog
Mistral Large 4 FAQ
When was Mistral Large 4 released?
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4 on October 5, 2026. The launch entry below links to the official announcement.
Where is Mistral Large 4 available?
Mistral Large 4 is available on Mistral API. Later availability changes are listed under follow-up releases on this page.
What is the Mistral Large 4 API model id?
Use mistral-large-4 in Mistral AI's API.
What came before Mistral Large 4?
Mistral Large 4 follows Mistral Large 3, released on December 2, 2025.
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