Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) vs Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)

Neither wins outright: Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) is the pick when cost matters at scale, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) when you need file / PDF input.

Key numbers

SpecMeta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch)Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Input price (per 1M tokens)$0.17$0.20
Output price (per 1M tokens)$0.75$1.00
Blended price (3:1 input/output)$0.32$0.40
Cheaper than … of all models we track62%58%
Context window131K tokens (~197 pages)131K tokens (~197 pages)
Larger context than … of all models23%23%
Max output per response118K tokens (~88,500 words)105K tokens (~78,600 words)
Input typestext, imagetext, image, file
Output typestexttext
Free variantNoNo
Listed since2026-08-092025-08-13
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What it costs for real workloads

Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.

Workload (per month)Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch)Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)Difference
Customer-support chatbot
50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens)
$28.12$35.00Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) saves $6.88
RAG search over documents
20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens)
$28.50$34.00Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) saves $5.50
Coding / tool-using agent
2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens)
$30.00$36.00Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) saves $6.00
Batch summarisation
10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens)
$18.50$22.00Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) saves $3.50
Long-document analysis
500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens)
$9.50$11.00Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) saves $1.50

Capabilities side by side

CapabilityMeta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch)Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)What it lets you do
Tool / function calling✓ Yes✓ Yescall your APIs and run agent loops
Structured output (JSON schema)✓ Yes✓ Yesreturn JSON that validates against your schema
Reasoning / thinking mode✓ Yes—spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems
Image input✓ Yes✓ Yesread screenshots, charts and scanned pages
Audio input——take speech or audio directly
File / PDF input—✓ Yesaccept documents without your own parsing step
Image output——generate images, not just text
Built-in web search——answer from live web results
Seed (reproducible sampling)—✓ Yesrepeat a generation for tests and evals
Log-probabilities✓ Yes—read token confidence for classification and scoring

From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.

Price history

DateModelInput / 1MOutput / 1M
2026-09-10Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)$0.20$1.00
2026-09-09Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch)$0.17$0.75

Which should you choose?

Choose Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) if…

  • cost matters at scale — it is 20% cheaper on a typical 3:1 input/output mix ($28.12 vs $35.00 a month for 50,000 support chats)
  • you need reasoning / thinking mode — to spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) does not advertise it
  • you need log-probabilities — to read token confidence for classification and scoring; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) does not advertise it
  • you want the newer model — released 2026-08-09, 12 months after the other

Choose Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) if…

  • you need file / PDF input — to accept documents without your own parsing step; Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) does not advertise it
  • you need seed (reproducible sampling) — to repeat a generation for tests and evals; Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) does not advertise it

Frequently asked questions

Is Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) better than Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)?

Neither wins outright: Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) is the pick when cost matters at scale, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) when you need file / PDF input. In short: Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) when cost matters at scale, you need reasoning / thinking mode, you need log-probabilities, you want the newer model; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) when you need file / PDF input, you need seed (reproducible sampling).

Which is cheaper, Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) or Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)?

Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) is cheaper: $0.32 vs $0.40 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 20% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $28.12 against $35.00.

How much do Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) and Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) cost per million tokens?

Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) costs $0.17 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) costs $0.20 input and $1.00 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.

Which has the bigger context window, Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) or Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)?

Both take 131K tokens per request — roughly 197 pages of text.

Do Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) and Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) support function calling and JSON output?

Tool calling — Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch): yes, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch): yes. JSON-schema structured output — Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch): yes, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch): yes.

Can Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) or Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) read images?

Yes, both accept image input.

Is Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) or Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) free to use?

No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.

What is the maximum output length of Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) and Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)?

Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) can write up to 118K tokens (about 88,500 words) per response; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) up to 105K (about 78,600 words).

When were Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) and Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) released?

Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) was listed on 2026-08-09; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) on 2025-08-13.

Has the price of Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch) or Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) changed?

Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch): input price cut 50% ($0.35 → $0.17/1M), output price cut 50% ($1.50 → $0.75/1M) on 2026-09-09. Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch): input price cut 50% ($0.40 → $0.20/1M), output price cut 50% ($2.00 → $1.00/1M) on 2026-09-10.

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