alt Hacker NewsI'm using mistral-medium-2508 for some text transformation operations. It's giving me better results than mistral-large for my use cases. Looking forward to testing this new model, although I'm not sure if it's really meant at replacing the previous medium model since it's a lot more expensive and presented more as a coding / agentic model (mistral-medium-2508 was priced $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens, mistral-medium-3.5 is $1,5/$7.5).
I actually use Mistral Large to go through some large text chunks (in production). It gives about the same level of results as Sonnet, while being 90% cheaper. Definitely wouldn't use it for coding, but for this text-analyzing task it has been great. Much better than all the latest Chinese models, for example.
So I was waiting for this release and it's... 5x more expensive than the latest Mistral Large. So now I'm worried they'll pull the plug on the cheap Large when their releases roll over to that one.