Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk)
#78 in Frontier LLMsMistral AI · v4 · large (le chonk) · since 6. Oktober 2026 · 5× · last seen Oct 10, 2026
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Mistral Large 4 ("Le Chonk") is a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts language model from Mistral AI with 1.05 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active parameters according to the official documentation (active-parameter figures vary between 49 and 52 billion). It has been available as a public preview via the Mistral API since October 6, 2026; open weights are announced for the end of October 2026.
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Features
| Key Benchmark (%) | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 38 (October 2026) |
| Context Window (Tokens) | 1,048,576 (1M) per model docs; some aggregators list 524K |
| License | Not yet officially announced (reports mention a custom Mistral license) |
| Multimodality | Text and image input, text output (natively multimodal) |
| Platform | Public preview via Mistral API / Mistral Studio; open weights announced for end of October 2026 |
| Price per 1M Tokens | Input $0.68 / cached $0.07 / output $2.09 (promotional; list price $1.36 / $0.14 / $4.18) |
| Release Date | October 6, 2026 (public preview) |