Neither wins outright: Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B is the pick when you need reasoning / thinking mode, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) when cost matters at scale.
| Spec | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.30 | $0.20 |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $1.20 | $1.00 |
| Blended price (3:1 input/output) | $0.52 | $0.40 |
| Cheaper than … of all models we track | 52% | 58% |
| Context window | 131K tokens (~197 pages) | 131K tokens (~197 pages) |
| Larger context than … of all models | 23% | 23% |
| Max output per response | 16K tokens (~12,300 words) | 105K tokens (~78,600 words) |
| Input types | text, image | text, image, file |
| Output types | text | text |
| Free variant | No | No |
| Listed since | 2026-08-09 | 2025-08-13 |
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 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens) | $46.50 | $35.00 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) saves $11.50 |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens) | $48.00 | $34.00 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) saves $14.00 |
| 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) | $50.40 | $36.00 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) saves $14.40 |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens) | $31.20 | $22.00 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) saves $9.20 |
| Long-document analysis 500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens) | $16.20 | $11.00 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) saves $5.20 |
| Capability | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) | What it lets you do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tool / function calling | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | call your APIs and run agent loops |
| Structured output (JSON schema) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | return JSON that validates against your schema |
| Reasoning / thinking mode | ✓ Yes | — | spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems |
| Image input | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | read screenshots, charts and scanned pages |
| Audio input | — | — | take speech or audio directly |
| File / PDF input | — | ✓ Yes | accept 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) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | repeat a generation for tests and evals |
| Log-probabilities | — | — | read token confidence for classification and scoring |
From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.
| Date | Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 | $1.20 |
| 2026-09-30 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.35 | $1.50 |
| 2026-09-21 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 | $1.20 |
| 2026-09-19 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.35 | $1.50 |
| 2026-09-18 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 | $1.10 |
| 2026-09-13 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.35 | $1.50 |
| 2026-09-10 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) | $0.20 | $1.00 |
| 2026-09-03 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 | $1.10 |
Neither wins outright: Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B is the pick when you need reasoning / thinking mode, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) when cost matters at scale. In short: Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B when you need reasoning / thinking mode, you want the newer model; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) when cost matters at scale, you need file / PDF input, you generate long outputs in one go.
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) is cheaper: $0.40 vs $0.52 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 24% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $35.00 against $46.50.
Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 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.
Both take 131K tokens per request — roughly 197 pages of text.
Tool calling — Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B: yes, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch): yes. JSON-schema structured output — Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B: yes, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch): yes.
Yes, both accept image input.
No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.
Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B can write up to 16K tokens (about 12,300 words) per response; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) up to 105K (about 78,600 words).
Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B was listed on 2026-08-09; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) on 2025-08-13.
Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B: input price cut 14% ($0.35 → $0.30/1M), output price cut 20% ($1.50 → $1.20/1M) on 2026-10-07 (10 price changes since 2026-08-11). 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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