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Hy3 Open vs Mistral Large 3 2512 Open

Hy3 vs Mistral Large 3 2512 compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.

Prices & specs refreshed from live data · olud.ai

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Choose Hy3 for the lower output price ($0.53/M vs $1.5/M). It also gives you the larger 262K context window.

Hy3 vs Mistral Large 3 2512 specs

SpecHy3Mistral Large 3 2512
MakerTencentMistral AI
TypeOpen-weightOpen-weight
Context window262K tokens262K tokens
Input price$0.13/M · free self-host$0.5/M · free self-host
Output price$0.53/M · free self-host$1.5/M · free self-host
Vision / multimodalNoYes
Tool / function callingYesYes
Self-hostableYesYes
LicenseOpen weightsApache 2.0

Feature comparison

CapabilityHy3Mistral Large 3 2512
Open weights (downloadable)✓✓
Self-hostable✓✓
Runs fully offline✓✓
Vision / multimodal✗✓
Tool / function calling✓✓
1M+ context window✗✗

Benchmarks: Hy3 vs Mistral Large 3 2512

Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).

Hy3 delivers 8.1× more intelligence per dollar.
Hy3
Mistral Large 3 2512
Intelligence index
41.2
15.9
Coding index
58.8
20.1
GPQA
89.7%
68%
Humanity's Last Exam
31.6%
4.1%
Long Context Reasoning
66.7%
34.7%
SciCode
47.6%
36.2%
τ-Bench Banking
20.8%
5.8%
Terminal-Bench
64.4%
12%
Math index
–
38
MMLU-Pro
–
80.7%
LiveCodeBench
–
46.5%
AIME 2025
–
38%
IFBench
–
36.2%
τ²-Bench
–
24.6%
Terminal-Bench Hard
–
15.9%
Speed
68.6 tok/s
60.9 tok/s
Latency
1.68s
1.05s
Intelligence per $
171
21.2

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How Hy3 and Mistral Large 3 2512 score

🤝 Neck and neck on these criteria (4.5 vs 4.7 / 5).
CriterionHy3Mistral Large 3 2512
Cost-efficiency5.04.5
Context window4.04.0
Openness5.05.0
Self-hosting5.05.0
Multimodality3.55.0

Scores come from live data — output price (cost), context length, open vs closed weights (openness & self-hosting) and vision/tool support (multimodality). Raw task quality isn't scored here; it depends on your benchmark — see the verdict.

What each model is

Hy3 Open

Tencent · Open-weight

Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model from Tencent (21B active, 192 experts with top-8 routing) built for reasoning, agentic workflows, and real-world production use. It supports a configurable reasoning effort:...

Mistral Large 3 2512 Open

Mistral AI · Open-weight

Mistral Large 3 2512 is Mistral’s most capable model to date, featuring a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with 41B active parameters (675B total), and released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Other models in these families

These variants are tracked but not compared here — one page per family keeps the comparison readable.

Other variants tracked
Hy3 previewHunyuan A13B Instruct
Other variants tracked
Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral Small 4Devstral 2 2512Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral Medium 3Ministral 3 14B 2512Mistral Small 3.2 24BMinistral 3 8B 2512Mistral LargeMistral Large 2407Mistral Small 3SabaMinistral 3 3B 2512Mixtral 8x22B InstructCodestral 2508UncensoredVoxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral Nemo

Frequently asked questions

Hy3 vs Mistral Large 3 2512 — which is cheaper?

Hy3 is cheaper on output ($0.53/M vs $1.5/M).

Which has the larger context window?

Hy3 offers the larger context window (262K tokens).

Hy3 vs Mistral Large 3 2512 — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose Hy3 for the lower output price ($0.53/M vs $1.5/M). It also gives you the larger 262K context window.

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