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Mistral Medium 3

Retired · Language, Multimodal · Milestone

Mistral Medium 3 is a commercial multimodal model from Mistral AI with text and image input, offered through its API, on Amazon SageMaker and as the model behind Le Chat Enterprise. Mistral AI presents it for enterprise use, with hybrid, on-premises or in-VPC deployment and custom post-training. [1] [2] [3] Primary source

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  • Released Primary source[2]page date; Available today [4]May 7, 2025 [1]release date [5]Model Lifecycle: Mistral Medium 3.0, Release Date
  • Deprecated Primary source[6]Deprecated table, Mistral Medium 3 (mistral-medium-2505) [1]Deprecation date
  • Retired Primary source[6]Deprecated table, Mistral Medium 3 (mistral-medium-2505)
  • Status RetiredNo weights published. On 2026-10-01 the docs model page still showed a Deprecated badge and the Legal Center lifecycle table still listed Mistral Medium 3.0 as Active, but the models overview gives 2026-08-31 as retirement date, which has passed. Primary source[6]Deprecated table, Mistral Medium 3 (mistral-medium-2505), retirement 8/31/2026
  • Replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5Replacement named for the API model when checked on 2026-10-01. Primary source[6]Deprecated table, Mistral Medium 3, Alternative [1]Replacement
  • Successor of Mistral Medium EditorialEditorial link along the Mistral Medium line: the announcement names no predecessor and there was no Mistral Medium 2; the previous model in the line was the Mistral Medium endpoint of December 2023 (Mistral Medium 1.0 in the docs). Primary source[2]
  • Change · Modality Accepts image input in addition to text.Compared with Mistral Medium Primary source[1]Modalities
  • Change · Context length Has a context window of 128k tokens.Compared with Mistral Medium Primary source[1]Context
  • Change · Availability Offered for hybrid, on-premises and in-VPC deployment and with custom post-training, besides the API.Compared with Mistral Medium Primary source[2]
  • Input text, image Primary source[1]Modalities
  • Output text Primary source[1]Modalities
  • Context window 128k tokens Primary source[1]Context
  • Parameters Not disclosedNot disclosed by Mistral AI. No claim madeNo source
  • Access API, cloud partner, consumer appAt launch on Mistral La Plateforme and Amazon SageMaker (IBM watsonx, NVIDIA NIM, Azure AI Foundry and Google Cloud Vertex announced as coming), and as the model behind Le Chat Enterprise. Primary source[2]Available today. [3]first paragraph

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