Pick a winner in each dimension — change your vote anytime.
Pricing and capabilities synced from the OpenRouter catalogue. Scores are editorial (0–10).
Choose MiniMax M2.1 if you want tool-heavy personal and autonomous agents on a budget. Choose Mistral Large 3 if you want general-purpose open-weight agent work, especially in the EU.
Editorially it's close: each model leads in 2 of our five dimensions. On price, MiniMax M2.1 runs about $0.49 per 1M tokens (blended) and is open-weight; Mistral Large 3 is about $0.80 and open-weight.
The model picks the moves; the agent runs the loop, the tools, and the guardrails. Once you've chosen a model, see which agent gets the most out of it.