Claims and evidence
- Released Primary source[1]page date; One more thing [3]November 18, 2024 [4]release date
- Deprecated Primary source[5]Deprecated & retired models table, row Mistral Large 2.1 [4]Deprecation date
- Retired Primary source[5]Deprecated & retired models table, row Mistral Large 2.1
- Status AvailableWeights under the Mistral Research License remain downloadable from the mistralai Hugging Face organisation; the API endpoint mistral-large-2411 was deprecated on 2026-02-27 and retired on 2026-05-31. Primary source[2] [5]Deprecated & retired models table, row Mistral Large 2.1
- Replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5 Primary source[5]Deprecated & retired models table, row Mistral Large 2.1, Alternative [4]Replacement
- Revision of Mistral Large 2Mistral announced it as an update to Mistral Large and an upgrade on Mistral Large 24.07; the changelog calls it Mistral Large 2.1. Primary source[1]One more thing [2]first paragraph [3]November 18, 2024
- Change · Context length Mistral reports better long-context understanding.Compared with Mistral Large 2 Primary source[1]One more thing [2]
- Change · Tool use Mistral reports more accurate function calling.Compared with Mistral Large 2 Primary source[1]One more thing [2]
- Change · Other Uses a new instruct template with system prompt tokens, which Mistral presents as stronger system prompt support.Compared with Mistral Large 2 Primary source[2] [1]One more thing
- Input text Primary source[4]Modalities
- Output text Primary source[4]Modalities
- Feature Function calling Primary source[1]One more thing [2]Key features
- Open weights YesMistral Research License for research; a commercial licence from Mistral AI for commercial use. Primary source[1]One more thing [2]
- Context window 128k tokens Primary source[4]Context [2]Key features
- Parameters 123B Primary source[2]first paragraph [4]Weights table
- Access API, Open-weights download Primary source[3]November 18, 2024 [1]One more thing
Lineage
Predecessors
No known predecessor.
Successors
- Mistral Large 3 · 2 December 2025
Based on
- Mistral Large 2 · 24 July 2024 · revision
Variants and derived
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Siblings
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All ancestors
- Mistral Large · 26 February 2024
- Mistral Large 2 · 24 July 2024
All descendants
- Mistral Large 3 · 2 December 2025
Variants
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