Grok 4.3 vs Mistral Large 3

xAI's Grok 4.3 and Mistral AI's Mistral Large 3 compared on specs, pricing, and capabilities — as configured in AI Crucible ensembles.

Mistral Large 3 input tokens are 2.5x cheaper than Grok 4.3 ($0.60 vs $1.50 per 1M tokens).
Mistral Large 3 output tokens are 1.7x cheaper than Grok 4.3 ($1.80 vs $3.00 per 1M tokens).
Grok 4.3 offers the larger context window: 1M tokens vs 256K tokens for Mistral Large 3.
Grok 4.3 is a reasoning model that spends extra tokens thinking before answering; Mistral Large 3 responds directly.

Specification	Grok 4.3	Mistral Large 3
Provider	xAI	Mistral AI
API model ID	grok-4.3	mistral-large-latest
Description	xAI's flagship Grok model with 1M context, supporting both reasoning and fast non-reasoning modes.	Mistral AI's flagship model with 41B active parameters, excelling at complex reasoning and multimodal tasks.
Context window	1M tokens	256K tokens
Max output tokens	32,768	8,192
Input cost ($/1M tokens)	$1.50	$0.60
Output cost ($/1M tokens)	$3.00	$1.80
Cache read cost ($/1M tokens)	$0.24	-
Latency	medium	medium
Reasoning model	Yes	No
Vision (image input)	Yes	Yes
Tool use	Yes	Yes