benchmark — A standard public test set for comparing AI models — the shared scoreboards behind every "model X beats model Y" claim.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.
Why it matters
Mistral Medium 3 is priced at $0.4 in / $2 out per million tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition → while claiming at least 90% of Claude Sonnet 3.7 across benchmarks, with hybrid or in-VPC deployment available, making it a cost floor worth checking against your current coding and multimodalA model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.Full definition → calls.
