Mistral AI
Mistral AI is a French AI research company that builds both open-weight and proprietary large language models, offered through an API billed per token and through Le Chat, its consumer chat app. Le Chat has a free tier and paid plans from $5.99 a month for students up to $14.99 a month for individuals, and the API is billed per million tokens, for example $0.5 input / $1.5 output per million tokens for Mistral Large.
Facts checked on against the sources listed at the end of this page.
- Pricing
- Pay as you goPaid from $5.99 a month for Le Chat Pro (student pricing), $14.99 a month standard
- Open source
- NoMixed: some models open-weight (Apache-2.0 or similar), flagship models proprietary
- npm downloads a week
- 9.6Mup 13% on the week before
A good fit for
- Developers who want a European AI provider with both open and proprietary model options
- Teams that want a mix of open-weight models for self-hosting and a hosted API for larger models
- Document processing workflows that need OCR or speech transcription alongside a chat model
- Individuals who want a lower-cost consumer AI chat subscription than some larger competitors
Not a good fit for
- Teams that want every model in the lineup to be open-weight, since flagship models like Mistral Large are proprietary
- Applications needing the single highest-scoring frontier model regardless of price, where larger US labs' top models may outperform
- Users who need full pricing transparency without checking a separate page per model, since not every model's price is listed prominently
Mistral AI pricing
Le Chat has a free tier with limited access plus $10 a month in API credits, Pro at $14.99 a month ($5.99 for verified students) with $15 a month in API credits, and Team at $24.99 a user a month plus a $50 a month base fee. API pricing is per million tokens and varies by model, for example $0.5 input / $1.5 output per million tokens for Mistral Large, with batch processing at about half price and cached input tokens discounted up to 90%.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Le Chat Free | $0 | Limited chat access, $10 a month in API credits. |
| Le Chat Pro | $14.99 a month ($5.99 for verified students) | $15 a month in API credits, expanded chat usage. |
| Le Chat Team | $24.99 a user a month plus $50 a month base fee | Shared storage and collaboration features. |
| API: Mistral Large | $0.5 input / $1.5 output per million tokens | Mistral's larger general-purpose model. |
Prices in USD, checked on 27 September 2026. Current prices on mistral.ai.
Main features
- API access
- Pay-per-token access to Mistral's model lineup, including Mistral Large, Medium and Small.
- Le Chat
- Mistral's consumer chat app, with free and paid subscription tiers.
- Open-weight models
- Some Mistral models are released with open weights under permissive licenses.
- OCR API
- Document text extraction, priced per thousand pages.
- Speech models
- Audio transcription and related speech APIs, priced per minute.
- Batch processing
- Batch API calls at roughly half the standard per-token price.
About Mistral AI
Mistral AI builds a range of language models, from smaller open-weight models released under permissive licenses to larger proprietary flagship models such as Mistral Large, available through Mistral's own API and through major cloud providers.
Le Chat is Mistral's consumer chat application, offering a free tier with limited usage and paid Pro and Team plans that include a monthly allowance of API credits alongside the chat interface.
Beyond general chat models, Mistral offers specialized models and APIs for OCR (priced per page) and speech (priced per minute), plus batch processing and cached input tokens that both reduce cost compared to standard API pricing.
- Made by
- Mistral AI
- Based in
- Paris, France
- Free plan
- Yes, in Le Chat, with limited usage and $10 a month in API credits
- Available on
- REST API, Le Chat web and apps, Major cloud providers
Usage and activity
Weekly npm downloads of @mistralai/mistralai, last 12 months.
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Questions about Mistral AI
Is Mistral AI open source?
Some of Mistral's smaller models are released with open weights under permissive licenses, but its flagship models, such as Mistral Large, are proprietary and API-only.
How much does Le Chat cost?
There's a free tier, Pro is $14.99 a month ($5.99 for verified students), and Team is $24.99 a user a month plus a $50 a month base fee.
How is the Mistral API priced?
Per million tokens, varying by model; for example Mistral Large is $0.5 input and $1.5 output per million tokens. Batch processing cuts the price roughly in half.
Where is Mistral AI based?
Paris, France.
Sources and links
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