AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — AI21 Labs
Jamba2 Mini is an open-source model in AI21 Labs’ Jamba2 family, released on January 8, 2026 alongside Jamba2 3B. It is built on the SSM-Transformer architecture and aimed at grounded, steerable enterprise question answering without the overhead of a reasoning model.
Model B — Mistral AI
Mistral Large 3 is an open-weight, sparse mixture-of-experts model from Mistral AI, released on December 2, 2025 under Apache 2.0, with 41B active and 675B total parameters. It accepts text and image input.
| Property | Jamba2 Mini | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Jan 8, 2026 | Dec 2, 2025 |
| Developer | AI21 Labs | Mistral AI |
| Type | llm | multimodal |
| License | open-weight | open-weight |
| Context window | — | 256,000 |
| Parameters | 52B total, 12B active (Mixture of Experts) | 675B total, 41B active (mixture of experts) |
| Developer status | — | Superseded |
| Input $/M tokens | $0.20 | $0.50 |
| Output $/M tokens | $0.40 | $1.50 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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