# Mistral Large 3 vs Sonar

> Mistral Large 3 and Sonar score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.6 vs 37.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-3-vs-sonar
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.2 to 52.6.
- Mistral Large 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $1 for Sonar.
- Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Mistral Large 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large 3 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 38.6 | 37.8 |
| Rank | 172 | 184 |
| Context | 262K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | $1 |
| Output $/M | $0.75 | $1 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230)
- Sonar: 35.1 (#217)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1230 | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 35.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1447 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314)
- Sonar: 20.3 (#221)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 7.5% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 23% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 46.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 37.9% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.9% |

## Math

- Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131)
- Sonar: 31.3 (#197)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | — | 41.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1415 | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1222 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1456 | — |
| LMArena German | 1438 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1399 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1384 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1437 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104)
- Sonar: 71.5 (#146)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 76.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1402 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1413 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100)
- Sonar: 52.6 (#166)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1385 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1429 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 44.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Large 3 better than Sonar?

Mistral Large 3 and Sonar score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.6 vs 37.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 or Sonar?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Sonar lists at $1 and $1.

### Is Mistral Large 3 or Sonar better for coding?

Sonar scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 3 does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and Sonar share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.