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Mistral Large 3 Base on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Mistral Large 3 Base scores 83.3 on IFEval, placing it #237 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
83.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#237
of 600
Percentile
61th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
12.8
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Mistral Large 3 Base highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Mistral Large 3 Base sits at #237 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 12.8 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Mistral Large 3 Base above the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 76.5 on this benchmark. Mistral Large 3 Base is 6.8 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 85.2. Mistral Large 3 Base is 1.9 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 83.3 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $4.47 per million input tokens, Mistral Large 3 Base is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Nova Lite Reasoning Amazon 32768 $9.92 74.3
Yi-Lightning Chat 01.AI 32768 $3.79 75.5
Qwen3-Max Mini Alibaba Cloud 128000 $11.13 76.5
GLM-4.5 Base Zhipu AI 32768 $3.99 74.9
Mistral Large 3 Base Mistral AI 65536 $4.47 78.2
Nova Lite Pro Amazon 200000 $9.69 74.1
Hunyuan-Turbo Pro Tencent 65536 $12.00 77.6

Other benchmarks for Mistral Large 3 Base

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 78.9 214 64th
GPQA Diamond 75.5 132 78th
SWE-bench Verified 64.3 227 62th
HumanEval 85.0 118 80th
MATH-500 84.5 116 81th
AIME 2025 70.8 241 60th
LiveCodeBench 72.3 143 76th
TruthfulQA 81.0 157 74th
HellaSwag 88.3 131 78th
MMMU 75.8 142 76th
Arena Elo 1420.3 148 75th

FAQ

What score does Mistral Large 3 Base get on IFEval?

Mistral Large 3 Base scores 83.3 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Mistral Large 3 Base rank on IFEval?

It ranks #237 of 600 models, in the 61st percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Mistral Large 3 Base good at IFEval?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Mistral Large 3 Base cost?

Mistral Large 3 Base costs $4.47 per million input tokens and $23.57 per million output tokens.

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