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

Mistral Large 3 Chat scores 86.6 on IFEval, placing it #143 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
86.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#143
of 600
Percentile
76th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
9.5
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Mistral Large 3 Chat 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 Chat sits at #143 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 9.5 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Mistral Large 3 Chat above the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 76.5 on this benchmark. Mistral Large 3 Chat is 10.1 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 Chat is 1.4 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 86.6 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 $4.90 per million input tokens, Mistral Large 3 Chat 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
Kimi K2 Base Moonshot AI 65536 $4.82 79.2
Command A Max Cohere 400000 $14.28 79.9
Magistral Instruct Mistral AI 65536 $4.48 78.4
DeepSeek-Coder DeepSeek 32768 $4.55 78.1
Mistral Large 3 Chat Mistral AI 1000000 $4.90 79.1
Qwen3-Coder Alibaba Cloud 200000 $4.94 79.5
Hunyuan-Turbo Reasoning Tencent 128000 $11.89 77.5

Other benchmarks for Mistral Large 3 Chat

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 83.3 101 83th
GPQA Diamond 75.9 123 80th
SWE-bench Verified 67.1 167 72th
HumanEval 85.0 119 80th
MATH-500 81.6 175 71th
AIME 2025 74.1 178 70th
LiveCodeBench 73.0 128 79th
TruthfulQA 80.2 173 71th
HellaSwag 87.1 174 71th
MMMU 76.6 121 80th
Arena Elo 1414.2 172 71th

FAQ

What score does Mistral Large 3 Chat get on IFEval?

Mistral Large 3 Chat scores 86.6 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Mistral Large 3 Chat rank on IFEval?

It ranks #143 of 600 models, in the 76th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Mistral Large 3 Chat 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 Chat cost?

Mistral Large 3 Chat costs $4.90 per million input tokens and $20.04 per million output tokens.

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