Mistral AI
European AI company with best-in-class open models
Category
LLM Providers for Code
Platforms
api
Pricing
$0 — Custom
Open Source
Yes
IDE Support
Any via API
What is Mistral AI?
Mistral AI is a French company producing highly capable open-weight LLMs. Their models (Mistral 7B, Mixtral, Mistral Large) consistently rank near the top of benchmarks for their size. Available via API and free to self-host.
Who is it for? Developers building AI-powered applications who need reliable model APIs.
Key Features
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Our Verdict
Best European AI provider. Models offer excellent performance-to-cost ratio. Codestral is the best non-OpenAI code model.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- + Open weight models available
- + Great cost efficiency
- + EU data residency option
- + Fast inference
- + Codestral for coding tasks
Cons
- - Models slightly behind GPT-4o at top end
- - Smaller ecosystem than OpenAI
- - API reliability still maturing
- - Enterprise pricing opaque
Pricing
Free Tier
$0
- Limited API calls
- Mistral 7B access
Pay-as-you-go
From $0.25/1M tokens
- All models
- Codestral
- La Plateforme API
Enterprise
Custom
- Dedicated deployment
- EU data residency
- SLA
Supported Languages & IDEs
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About Mistral AI
Company Mistral AI
Founded 2023
HQ Paris, France
Repository
github.com/mistralai/mistral-src
Status Active
Data updated 2025-03-12