8 tools you can use instead of Mistral Large 3, ranked by live GitHub stars and npm downloads. Anthropic Claude, StarCoder and Gemma 4 are the most used. Stats updated 5 hours ago.
Anthropic Claude and Gemini 3.1 Pro are the closest alternatives among hosted proprietary models. DeepSeek V4 and Gemma 4 are open-weight options you can download and run yourself.
Mistral Large 3 is Mistral AI's flagship large language model, aimed at complex reasoning and general-purpose tasks, available through Mistral's API. Mistral's example pricing for its Large model tier is $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, though current Mistral Large 3-specific rates should be confirmed on Mistral's pricing page.
It is a weaker choice for:
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Anthropic's Claude model family, accessed through the Claude apps, the Claude API, or major clouds.
Open source code-generation model from the BigCode project, trained on 80+ programming languages.
Google DeepMind's current generation of lightweight, open-weight language models.
DeepSeek's current open-weight model family, including V4.1-Flash and V4-Pro.
Google's third-generation Gemini Pro model, currently in preview, for complex reasoning tasks.
OpenAI's specialized coding model, priced separately from its general-purpose GPT models.
TypeSafe AI's System One model: returns typed decisions with probabilities instead of text.
Meta's proprietary flagship AI model, its first major release since the Llama line.
| Tool | Pricing | Free plan | Paid from | Open source | GitHub stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Large 3 | Pay as you go | Limited free access is available through La Plateforme's free tier | Around $0.50 per million input tokens (Mistral Large tier, per Mistral's example pricing) | No | None |
| Anthropic Claude | Pay as you go | Yes, in the Claude apps; the API has no free tier and is billed per token | $20 a month for Claude Pro; API from $1 input per million tokens on Haiku 4.5 | No | 2.1k |
| StarCoder | Open source | Yes, free to download and use, subject to accepting the OpenRAIL-M license terms | Not listed | Yes, BigCode OpenRAIL-M | 7.5k |
| Gemma 4 | Open source | Yes, weights are free to download and run | Not listed | No | 5.8k |
| DeepSeek V4 | Open source | Yes, open-weight models free to download and self-host; API access is pay-as-you-go | $0.15 per million input tokens off-peak (V4.1-Flash, cache miss) | Yes, MIT (weights and code) | None |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | Pay as you go | Limited free access is available through Google AI Studio and Gemini app tiers | $2.00 per million input tokens (up to 200k tokens) | No | None |
| GPT-5.3 Codex | Pay as you go | No free tier for API access; usable through ChatGPT plans with usage limits | $1.75 per million input tokens (standard mode) | No | None |
| Jev | Pay as you go | Not stated on the official site. Usage is billed per input token. | $0.042 per million input tokens; output tokens are free | No | None |
| Meta Muse Spark | Pay as you go | Access is available through Meta AI's consumer products with usage limits | Priced per million tokens via API partners; check current provider pricing | No | None |
Pricing facts come from each tool's official pricing page, with the checked date on the tool's own page.
By GitHub stars, Anthropic Claude is the most used alternative to Mistral Large 3 listed on ScratchDB, with 2.1k stars.
StarCoder and DeepSeek V4 are open source.
Anthropic Claude, StarCoder, Gemma 4 and DeepSeek V4 have a free plan. The table on this page shows what each one includes.
