Side-by-side comparison of Mistral Large 2 (Mistral AI · France) and Mistral Nemo (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Mistral Large 2 is rated conditional; Mistral Nemo is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Mistral Large 2 is "MRL (research)", Mistral Nemo is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Frontier 123B dense model from an EU vendor. Open weights under Mistral Research License — non-commercial by default. Commercial deployment requires a separate paid licence from Mistral AI. | EU-ready A 12B model from Paris-based Mistral AI, co-trained with NVIDIA and shipped under Apache 2.0 with a 128k context window and strong coverage of major EU languages. EU-headquartered vendor plus a fully permissive licence make this one of the cleanest open-weight choices for organisations prioritising AI Act and GDPR alignment, with the main caveat being the usual lack of detail on the training corpus. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-05-19 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MRL (research) | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Paid licence req. | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed corpus |
| Origin | EU | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 15/100 | — |
| Speed | 38 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $3.00/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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