Mistral OCR 3 is basically a frontierlevel docume

Mistral OCR 3 is basically a frontier-level document VLM that happens to do OCR on the way. The fun part is structure. It doesn’t just dump text, it reconstructs layouts as HTML. Think tables, forms, columns, weirdly formatted PDFs from 2007, the whole thing. That means you can actually preserve semantics when you feed content into your RAG stack or agents, instead of giving them a flattened text blob and hoping for the best. Pricing is around $1 per 1,000 pages, which is… kind of wild if it holds up at scale. If their claimed 74% win rate on messy scans generalizes beyond the benchmark set, this stops being yet another OCR and starts being the default preprocessing layer for: - RAG over enterprise document dumps - Workflow and back-office automation - Agents that need to reason over forms, invoices, contracts, etc. If you’re building infra for knowledge-heavy products, the stack basically becomes: Blob storage → Mistral OCR 3 (structured HTML) → embeddings / parsing → RAG / agents