Mistral
FreeBest open-weight chat model
About Mistral
European AI lab producing frontier open-weight models deployable on your own infrastructure with no usage fees and no data leaving your environment. Fast, efficient, and competitive with much larger proprietary models on most benchmarks. The default choice for teams that want serious AI capability without vendor lock-in or compliance headaches.
Pricing plans
- Mistral Large model
- Fast, EU-hosted
- Any Mistral model
- OpenAI-compatible
- Private deployment
- Custom fine-tuning
- On-premises
How Mistral compares
| Directr tier | B | S | S | S |
| Price | Free / API usage-based | Free / $20/mo Plus | Free / $20/mo Pro | Free / API from $0.028/1M tokens |
| Free tier | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| API access | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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