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

Mistral Large 3 scores 88.6 on HumanEval, placing it #62 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
88.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#62
of 600
Percentile
90th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
8.2
points

Score distribution

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

GPT-5.2 Pro 96.8
Gemini 3 Pro Pro 95.0
o4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 93.8
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
GPT-5.2 Max 93.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 93.4
Grok 4 Max 93.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 93.2
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 92.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Gemini 3 Pro Pro Google DeepMind 200000 $19.80 87.3
3 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
4 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
5 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
8 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
9 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
10 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3

What this score means

On HumanEval, Mistral Large 3 sits at #62 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 8.2 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts Mistral Large 3 above the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 71.6 on this benchmark. Mistral Large 3 is 17.0 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 82.2. Mistral Large 3 is 6.4 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 88.6 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 $5.41 per million input tokens, Mistral Large 3 is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HumanEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
o4 Vision OpenAI 200000 $17.01 84.5
GPT-4.1 Max OpenAI 400000 $17.34 84.7
GPT-4.1 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $16.97 83.8
Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 128000 $15.11 81.4
Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI 128000 $5.41 81.7
Claude Haiku 4.5 Max Anthropic 200000 $15.98 83.8
Gemini 3 Flash Max Google DeepMind 1000000 $17.43 85.0

Other benchmarks for Mistral Large 3

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 84.6 71 88th
GPQA Diamond 79.6 65 89th
SWE-bench Verified 71.3 89 85th
MATH-500 84.1 123 80th
AIME 2025 78.3 110 82th
LiveCodeBench 74.4 101 83th
IFEval 89.8 75 88th
TruthfulQA 83.7 89 85th
HellaSwag 88.2 135 78th
MMMU 76.2 134 78th
Arena Elo 1448.6 76 87th

FAQ

What score does Mistral Large 3 get on HumanEval?

Mistral Large 3 scores 88.6 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does Mistral Large 3 rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #62 of 600 models, in the 90th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is Mistral Large 3 good at HumanEval?

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 HumanEval score calculated?

HumanEval is a coding 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 cost?

Mistral Large 3 costs $5.41 per million input tokens and $23.83 per million output tokens.

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