Mistral Medium 3.1 API: toman pricing and code

mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1

Image inputTool callingJSON outputFile input
Input · per 1M tokens
138,488 toman
Output · per 1M tokens
692,439 toman
One 1,000-word request ≈
1,080 toman

You are billed for the usage the request actually reported. Prices follow the market. Cached input: 13,849 toman per 1M tokens.Pricing and top-ups

Mistral Medium 3.1 example: reading an image into JSON

The example is picked from this model's own capabilities. Drop in your key and it runs as is.

# tip: a data URI works too — base64 the file and prefix it with data:image/jpeg;base64,
curl https://api.uttapen.ir/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-up-…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1",
    "messages": [{
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
        {"type": "text", "text": "Return only the invoice number and the total, as JSON."},
        {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://example.com/factor.jpg"}}
      ]
    }]
  }'
import base64, json
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.uttapen.ir/v1", api_key="sk-up-…")

img = base64.b64encode(open("factor.jpg", "rb").read()).decode()

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1",
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "text", "text": "Return the invoice number, the date and the total as JSON."},
            {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": f"data:image/jpeg;base64,{img}"}},
        ],
    }],
    response_format={"type": "json_object"},
)
print(json.loads(resp.choices[0].message.content))
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";

const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://api.uttapen.ir/v1", apiKey: "sk-up-…" });
const img = readFileSync("factor.jpg").toString("base64");

const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1",
  messages: [{
    role: "user",
    content: [
      { type: "text", text: "Return the invoice number, the date and the total as JSON." },
      { type: "image_url", image_url: { url: `data:image/jpeg;base64,${img}` } },
    ],
  }],
  response_format: { type: "json_object" },
});
console.log(JSON.parse(resp.choices[0].message.content));

What is Mistral Medium 3.1 good for?

Mistral publishes this model; we expose it under the id "mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1". Its context window is 131,072 tokens, roughly 98k English words in one request. A single response can run to 104,857 tokens. On price it sits in the "mid-range" band — cheaper than 185 and dearer than 200 of the other paid models in the catalogue.

What it can do beyond plain text: it reads images directly, which makes it a real option for invoices, forms and screenshots; it takes files such as PDFs as input; it supports tool calling, so it can invoke your own functions with valid arguments; it returns schema-valid JSON through response_format, ready to hand to your code. All of it works through the standard parameters of the official OpenAI SDK — no custom client, no wrapper.

Pricing is 138,488 toman per 1M input tokens and 692,439 per 1M output tokens. A 1,000-word round trip on Mistral Medium 3.1 lands near 1,080 toman. It supports cached input: repeated context is billed at 13,849 toman per 1M, which matters a lot if your system prompt is long. You are always charged for the usage the request actually reported, never for the estimate, and a failed request costs nothing.

The closest alternative with the same capabilities from a different provider is Seed 1.6: Mistral Medium 3.1 works out about 10% more expensive, and its context window is smaller. Both run on the same key and the same code, so trying the other one is a single string change.

To make the figure concrete: 100,000 toman of credit buys roughly 93 thousand-word requests on Mistral Medium 3.1, and every 1,000 toman is about 926 words of round trip. A job with one million input tokens and one million output tokens comes to 830,926 toman in total. Filling this model's 131,072-token window costs 18,152 toman on the input side alone, which is the real reason to keep conversation history short.

Its nearest relative in the catalogue is "mistralai/mistral-medium-3", and choosing between those two is where most people hesitate. Both land at nearly the same price on a thousand-word request (1,080 and 1,080 toman).

Mistral has 21 models in our catalogue; the cheapest is Mistral Nemo at 27 toman per thousand words and the dearest Mistral Medium 3.5 at 4,051. Among the less common parameters it accepts presence_penalty — all through the standard request body. It does not support include_reasoning, reasoning, which most models here do, so test before switching if your code relies on them. By context size the nearest option from another provider is Aion-2.0 at 131,072 tokens.

Good fits: product chatbots and internal assistants, where cost and quality have to balance, pulling text and fields out of images, agents that reach out to APIs and databases, extracting data against a fixed schema.

Provider's own description

Mistral Medium 3.1 is an updated version of Mistral Medium 3, which is a high-performance enterprise-grade language model designed to deliver frontier-level capabilities at significantly reduced operational cost. It balances...

Three real jobs, priced on this model

Each figure is derived from the prices above and moves when they do.

JobTokensCost
One chat turn with a medium history1,500 in + 400 out485 toman
Summarising a ten-page document4,000 in + 600 out969 toman
Classifying a thousand short rows120,000 in + 20,000 out30,467 toman

Frequently asked

How do I call Mistral Medium 3.1 from Iran?
Sign up with your mobile number, top the wallet up in toman, create an API key, then in the official OpenAI SDK point base_url at https://api.uttapen.ir/v1 and set model to "mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1". Nothing else in your code changes.
What does Mistral Medium 3.1 cost in toman?
138,488 toman per 1M input tokens and 692,439 toman per 1M output tokens; a 1,000-word request is around 1,080 toman. You pay for the usage that request actually reported, and a failed request costs nothing.
How much input does Mistral Medium 3.1 take?
Up to 131,072 tokens per request, roughly 98k words. A single answer can reach 104,857 tokens.
Does Mistral Medium 3.1 support streaming and tool calling?
Streaming (stream=true) works on every model here. This one supports tool calling in the standard OpenAI shape. Image input is accepted through image_url, as a data URI or a public URL. Structured output through response_format works too.