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Cost anatomy

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral · Mistral direct APIDirect API

Fresh input / cached input / output cost breakdown, active and scheduled rates, provenance, same-model deployment markup, and cost-comparable alternatives for this purchasable lane.

Start with a pattern

Illustrative workloads

Pick a useful starting shape, then fine-tune every input below.

Fine-tune

Workload and pricing scenario

Adjust the token shape, cache behavior, time window, and service tier. Every number below updates immediately.

Interactive

Workload cost calculator

60M
210K
90%

Share of input tokens served from cache. Applied only to models with a cache meter.

Time

Rows with a rate that changes by time of day, promo window or service tier are priced for this scenario instead of their flat listed rate; a brand-colored label under the model name names which one applies. Context size for band-priced rows uses the input-token count below.

Picking a specific hour also previews time-of-day rates that are scheduled but have not started billing yet; those rows are labelled · preview with their start instant. Now only ever shows rates that are billable at this moment.

Rate state

What this lane charges right now

Priced under the workload and scenario above. The full published schedule below always shows every variant regardless of which scenario is selected.

Input / 1M
$1.50
CHF 1.21
Cached input / 1M
$0.15
CHF 0.121
Output / 1M
$7.50
CHF 6.04
Cost anatomy

Where this workload's cost goes

60M input tokens (90% cache hit) and 210K output tokens, at the resolved rate above.

$9.00
Fresh input · CHF 7.25
$8.10
Cached input · CHF 6.52
$1.57
Output · CHF 1.27
$18.68
Workload total · CHF 15.03

$9.00 + $8.10 + $1.57 = $18.68

Provenance

How much to trust these numbers

InputofficialCached inputofficialOutputofficial

mistral-medium-latest; identical to the Foundry Global rate. Cached input now officially published at $0.15/M (previously derived from Mistral's -90% cache discount rule).

Mistral's consolidated inference pricing page (docs.mistral.ai/inference/pricing), captured 2026-08-14: Mistral Medium 3.5 lists Input $1.5, Cached input $0.15, Output $7.5 per M (mode STANDARD/USD) — the cached rate is now a directly published dollar figure, superseding the earlier -90%-rule derivation from mistral.ai/pricing/api. Model card (docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-medium-3-5-26-04) corroborates the $1.50/$7.50 input/output rate. Neither Foundry tier publishes a cached-input meter at all (re-confirmed against the Azure Retail Prices API in today's sweep), so those rows stay null.

Direct vs Foundry

Same-model deployment markup

How much more Microsoft Foundry charges for this exact model, over this Direct rate.

LaneDeploymentWorkload costFoundry markup
Mistral Medium 3.5Foundry ·Data Zone$100.73+$82.06 (+439%)
Mistral Medium 3.5Foundry ·Global$91.58+$72.90 (+390%)
Cost-comparable

Other lanes within ±25% of this workload's cost

Same provider first, then ranked by cost proximity, for 60M in / 210K out. This is a cost ranking only — never a quality recommendation.

  • Grok-4.3
    Grok
    Foundry ·Global
    $18.82
    CHF 15.15
    +$0.15 (+1%) vs this lane
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash
    Gemini
    Foundry ·Global
    $18.99
    CHF 15.29
    +$0.315 (+2%) vs this lane
  • GLM 5.2
    GLM · Fireworks-hosted
    Foundry ·Data Zone
    $18.36
    CHF 14.78
    -$0.319 (-2%) vs this lane
  • DeepSeek-V4 Pro
    DeepSeek
    Foundry ·Global
    $19.00
    CHF 15.30
    +$0.326 (+2%) vs this lane
  • GLM 5
    GLM · Fireworks-hosted
    Foundry ·Data Zone
    $19.22
    CHF 15.47
    +$0.544 (+3%) vs this lane
  • GLM-5
    GLM · Z.ai direct API
    Direct API
    $17.47
    CHF 14.06
    -$1.20 (-6%) vs this lane