# Mistral Large (24.02)

> Mistral AI's first flagship API model — a GPT-4-class reasoning LLM that put a European lab on the frontier map.

- Maker: Mistral AI
- Line: Mistral Large
- Canonical page: https://ai-tldr.dev/models/mistral-large-1/
- Updated: 2026-06-18

## In short

Mistral Large (24.02) is Mistral AI's first flagship API model — a GPT-4-class reasoning LLM that put a European lab on the frontier map. Mistral AI released it on 26 February 2024 as an API-only model. It has a 32K-token context window. You can use it through Mistral AI (La Plateforme) and Amazon Bedrock.

## Facts

| Fact | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Context window | 32K tokens (max output Not officially published by Mistral for the 24.02 release) | [1] |
| Input price | $8.00 per 1M tokens (launch, Feb 2024) | [2] |
| Output price | $24.00 per 1M tokens (launch, Feb 2024) | [2] |
| Licence | Proprietary (commercial, closed-source). API-only access — no published model weights. · API only | [1] |
| Released | 26 February 2024 | [3] |
| Parameters | Not publicly disclosed by Mistral AI for the 24.02 version | [1] |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not officially published by Mistral AI | [1] |

## Sources

1. [Mistral Large 1.0 (24.02) model card — Mistral Docs](https://docs.mistral.ai/models/model-cards/mistral-large-1-0-24-02)
2. [TechCrunch — Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 (launch pricing)](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/mistral-ai-releases-new-model-to-rival-gpt-4-and-its-own-chat-assistant/)
3. [Au Large — official Mistral Large announcement](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/)

## Overview

Mistral Large (24.02), known on the API as mistral-large-2402, was Mistral AI's first flagship large language model, released on February 26, 2024. It marked the moment the Paris-based startup moved from open 7B/8x7B models into the closed, GPT-4-class tier: Mistral positioned Mistral Large as the second-ranked model generally available through an API at launch, behind only GPT-4. It shipped with a 32K-token context window and native fluency in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.

Mistral Large 24.02 was built for reasoning, multilingual work, and developer integration. It supported native function (tool) calling and a JSON output mode that forces responses into valid JSON, making it practical for agentic and structured-extraction pipelines. The launch coincided with the debut of Le Chat, Mistral's free conversational assistant, and a strategic distribution partnership with Microsoft that put Mistral Large on Azure as its first non-Mistral host; it later reached Amazon Bedrock (model ID mistral.mistral-large-2402-v1:0) as well.

This is a legacy model. Mistral AI deprecated mistral-large-2402 on November 30, 2024 and retired it on June 16, 2025, steering users toward the open-weight Mistral Large 2 (24.07/24.11) and then Mistral Large 3. The 24.02 generation itself was never released with open weights — unlike its successor — so it remains a proprietary, API-only artifact of historical interest rather than a model you can deploy today.

## Benchmarks

- MMLU (5-shot): 81.2% ([source](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/))

## Pricing

- Input: $8.00 per 1M tokens (launch, Feb 2024) per 1M tokens
- Output: $24.00 per 1M tokens (launch, Feb 2024) per 1M tokens

Launch pricing per TechCrunch's Feb 26, 2024 report, ~20% below GPT-4 Turbo at the time. Mistral later cut the mistral-large-2402 rate to roughly $4/$12 per 1M tokens before the model was retired on 2025-06-16.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/mistral-ai-releases-new-model-to-rival-gpt-4-and-its-own-chat-assistant/

## Strengths

- GPT-4-class reasoning for its era — ranked second among API-available models at launch on Mistral's own benchmarks
- Strong multilingual ability with native fluency in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian
- Native function calling and a strict JSON output mode for agentic and structured workflows
- Broad commercial availability at launch: Mistral La Plateforme, Microsoft Azure (first partner), and later Amazon Bedrock
- Priced roughly 20% below GPT-4 Turbo at launch, making frontier-tier quality cheaper for European-data-residency use cases

## Best for

- Complex multilingual reasoning and text generation across English and major European languages
- Structured data extraction and agent tooling via JSON mode and function calling
- Enterprise chat assistants and RAG over documents within the 32K context window
- Code generation and explanation as a general-purpose assistant
- Historical benchmarking and reproducibility studies of early-2024 frontier LLMs

## How to access

- [Mistral AI (La Plateforme)](https://docs.mistral.ai/models/model-cards/mistral-large-1-0-24-02) — model id `mistral-large-2402`
- [Amazon Bedrock](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/tackle-complex-reasoning-tasks-with-mistral-large-now-available-on-amazon-bedrock/) — model id `mistral.mistral-large-2402-v1:0`

## Mistral Large versions

- [Mistral Large 3](https://ai-tldr.dev/models/mistral-large-3/) (2 December 2025)
- [Mistral Large 2.1 (24.11)](https://ai-tldr.dev/models/mistral-large-2-1/) (18 November 2024)
- [Mistral Large 2 (24.07)](https://ai-tldr.dev/models/mistral-large-2/) (24 July 2024)
- Mistral Large (24.02) (26 February 2024) — this page

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Large 24.02 still available?

No. Mistral AI deprecated mistral-large-2402 on November 30, 2024 and retired it on June 16, 2025. New projects should use a current model such as Mistral Large 3; the 24.02 endpoint no longer serves requests.

### What is the context window of Mistral Large 24.02?

32K tokens (roughly 20,000+ English words). This was the value confirmed in Mistral's launch announcement, its model card, and on Azure and Amazon Bedrock. Note that the later Mistral Large 2 expanded this to 128K tokens.

### How much did Mistral Large 24.02 cost?

At its February 2024 launch it was priced at $8 per million input tokens and $24 per million output tokens — about 20% cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo at the time. Mistral later reduced the mistral-large-2402 rate to around $4/$12 per million tokens before retiring it.

### Does Mistral Large 24.02 have open weights?

No. The original 24.02 release was a proprietary, API-only model with no published weights. Open weights only arrived with its successor, Mistral Large 2 (24.07), which Mistral released under a research/non-commercial license.

## Links

- [Au Large — official Mistral Large announcement](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/)
- [Mistral Large 1.0 (24.02) model card — Mistral Docs](https://docs.mistral.ai/models/model-cards/mistral-large-1-0-24-02)
- [TechCrunch — Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 (launch pricing)](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/mistral-ai-releases-new-model-to-rival-gpt-4-and-its-own-chat-assistant/)
- [Mistral Large now available on Amazon Bedrock — AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/tackle-complex-reasoning-tasks-with-mistral-large-now-available-on-amazon-bedrock/)

Source: AI/TLDR LLM registry, https://ai-tldr.dev/models/mistral-large-1/