Mistral API Pricing
The Paris lab behind Le Chat and the open-weight Mistral family. Founded in 2023 by Arthur Mensch with ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers, it ships frontier-grade models with Apache-2.0 open weights for most tiers and EU-native data residency — the leading European alternative to US labs.
Mistral Small 4
Cached input $0.015/M, 10% of input, published per model on Mistral's inference pricing page (docs.mistral.ai/inference/pricing), verified 2026-09-21.
Ministral 3 14B
API ID `ministral-3-14b-2512`.
Ministral 3 8B
API ID `ministral-3-8b-2512`.
Mistral Medium 3.5
Higher list rate than Mistral Large 3 — positioned as state-of-the-art agentic/coding model.
Ministral 3 3B
API ID `ministral-3-3b-2512`.
Mistral Large 3
Open-weight, general-purpose, flagship multimodal + multilingual.
Codestral
Premier coding model; supports 80+ programming languages.
Mistral Large 4 LAUNCHED OCT 2026
Mistral Large 4 is Mistral's largest model to date, released 2026-10-06 as a Public Preview: a general-purpose, natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model that Mistral calls open-weight but has n…
Codestral 2501 LAUNCHED JAN 2025
API ID codestral-2501.
Codestral 2405 LAUNCHED MAY 2024
API ID codestral-2405.
Pixtral 12B LAUNCHED SEP 2024
API ID pixtral-12b (pixtral-12b-2409).
Mixtral 8x22B LAUNCHED APR 2024
API ID open-mixtral-8x22b.
Mixtral 8x7B LAUNCHED DEC 2023
API ID open-mixtral-8x7b.
Ministral 8B LAUNCHED OCT 2024
API ID ministral-8b-2410 (Ministral 8B 24.10).
Mistral 7B LAUNCHED SEP 2023
API ID open-mistral-7b.
Mistral Small 3.2
API ID `mistral-small-2506`.
Mistral Medium 3.1
API ID `mistral-medium-2508`.
Ministral 3B LAUNCHED OCT 2024
API ID ministral-3b-2410 (Ministral 3B 24.10).
Mistral Large 2.1 LAUNCHED NOV 2024
API ID mistral-large-2411 (also referred to as Mistral Large 24.11).
Devstral 2
RETIRED.
Devstral Small 2
RETIRED.
Mistral Large 2 LAUNCHED JUL 2024
API ID mistral-large-2407 (Mistral Large 24.07).
Leanstral 1.5 LAUNCHED JUN 2026
Leanstral 1.5 was Mistral's Lean 4 formal-proof engineering model, free on the API in public preview from 2026-06-30 until Mistral retired it on 2026-09-30.
Mistral Large 1 LAUNCHED FEB 2024
API ID mistral-large-2402 (also called Mistral Large 24.02).
Mistral Medium 1 LAUNCHED DEC 2023
API ID mistral-medium-2312.
Mistral Small 1 LAUNCHED FEB 2024
API ID mistral-small-2402 (Mistral Small 24.02).
Magistral Medium
RETIRED.
Magistral Small
RETIRED.
Leanstral
API ID `leanstral-2603`.
Pixtral Large LAUNCHED NOV 2024
API ID pixtral-large-2411.
Codestral Mamba 7B LAUNCHED JUL 2024
API ID open-codestral-mamba.
Mistral NeMo 12B LAUNCHED JUL 2024
API ID open-mistral-nemo.
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Cached | Context | Max output | Vision | Tools | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Small 4 | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.015−90% | 256K | — | ✓ | ✓ | Light |
| Ministral 3 14B | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.02−90% | 128K | — | ✓ | ✓ | Light |
| Ministral 3 8B | $0.15 | $0.15 | $0.015−90% | 128K | — | ✓ | ✓ | Light |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | $1.50 | $7.50 | $0.15−90% | documented elsewhere — not on pricing page | — | ✓ | ✓ | Mid |
| Ministral 3 3B | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.01−90% | 128K | — | ✓ | ✓ | Light |
| Mistral Large 3 FLAGSHIP | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.05−90% | documented elsewhere — not on pricing page | — | ✓ | ✓ | Frontier |
| Codestral | $0.30 | $0.90 | $0.03−90% | documented elsewhere — not on pricing page | — | ✗ | ✓ | Active |
| Mistral Large 4 PREVIEW | $1.36 | $4.18 | $0.14−90% | 1M | — | ✓ | ✓ | Preview |
| Codestral 2501 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Nov 30, 2025 | → Codestral | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Codestral 2405 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jun 16, 2025 | → Codestral | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Pixtral 12B RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Dec 31, 2025 | → Ministral 3 14B | ✓ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mixtral 8x22B RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Mar 30, 2025 | → Mistral Small 4 | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mixtral 8x7B RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Mar 30, 2025 | → Mistral Small 4 | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Ministral 8B RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Dec 31, 2025 | → Ministral 3 8B | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mistral 7B RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Mar 30, 2025 | → Ministral 3 8B | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mistral Small 3.2 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jul 31, 2026 | → Mistral Small 4 | ✓ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Aug 31, 2026 | → Mistral Medium 3.5 | ✓ | ✗ | Retired |
| Ministral 3B RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Dec 31, 2025 | → Ministral 3 3B | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mistral Large 2.1 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired May 31, 2026 | → Mistral Medium 3.5 | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Devstral 2 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jul 31, 2026 | → Mistral Medium 3.5 | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Devstral Small 2 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Mar 31, 2026 | → Mistral Small 4 | ✓ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mistral Large 2 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Mar 30, 2025 | → Mistral Large 3 | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Leanstral 1.5 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Sep 30, 2026 | — | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mistral Large 1 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jun 16, 2025 | → Mistral Large 3 | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mistral Medium 1 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jun 16, 2025 | → Mistral Medium 3.5 | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mistral Small 1 RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jun 16, 2025 | → Mistral Small 4 | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Magistral Medium RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jul 31, 2026 | → Mistral Medium 3.5 | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Magistral Small RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jul 31, 2026 | → Mistral Small 4 | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Leanstral RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jun 30, 2026 | — | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Pixtral Large RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired May 31, 2026 | → Mistral Medium 3.5 | ✓ | ✗ | Retired |
| Codestral Mamba 7B RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jun 6, 2025 | → Codestral | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
| Mistral NeMo 12B RETIRED | — | — | — | Retired Jul 31, 2026 | → Ministral 3 8B | ✗ | ✗ | Retired |
Pricing across the lineup.
The last 12 months at Mistral.
Major releases, funding, and EU-infrastructure moves. Sourced from official Mistral announcements + press coverage, verified at publication.
$1.36/$4.18 with a two-week 50% launch sale; weights promised by the end of October$0.15/$0.60 from $0.10/$0.30, unannouncedconsole.mistral.ai — direct API access, dev console, fine-tuning, and billing. Full model catalog including premier and free rows. Batch API offers −50% on async jobs.
CLOUD · MULTIMistral models are resold via AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, and Google Vertex AI Model Garden — useful for teams that bill through an existing cloud contract.
OPEN-WEIGHT · SELF-HOSTOpen-weight tiers (Small, Ministral, Devstral Small, Mixtral) ship under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face — fully self-hostable, no per-token fee. Premier models stay API-only.
CONSUMER · WEBchat.mistral.ai — Free, Pro, and Enterprise tiers. Web, iOS, Android. Le Chat Enterprise adds EU data residency, agents, and memory for regulated teams.
SOVEREIGN · INFRAEU-sovereign GPU infrastructure built with Nvidia (Blackwell / GB300) — lets European companies own their full AI stack without US or Chinese cloud dependence.
Mistral AI was founded in April 2023 in Paris by Arthur Mensch (CEO, ex-Google DeepMind), Guillaume Lample (Chief Scientist) and Timothée Lacroix (CTO) — the latter two from Meta's Llama team. The pitch: build frontier-grade models in Europe with open weights and EU data sovereignty as core principles rather than afterthoughts.
The company is a private French société par actions simplifiée (SAS). Funding has been rapid: a €105M seed in mid-2023, a ~$2B-valuation Series A in late 2023, a ~$6B round in 2024, and a €1.7B Series C in September 2025 led by chip-equipment maker ASML that more than doubled its valuation to roughly $14B. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Lightspeed, General Catalyst, DST Global, Index Ventures and Bpifrance.
Mistral's technical signature is its open-weight release strategy: the Mixtral mixture-of-experts models, the Small and Ministral families, and Devstral Small ship under Apache 2.0 licenses on Hugging Face — fully self-hostable. Premier models like Mistral Medium 3.5 and Magistral Medium remain API-only. The lab also builds the Le Chat consumer assistant and the Codestral / Devstral coding line.
Beyond models, Mistral is investing in European AI sovereignty. Mistral Compute, unveiled at VivaTech in June 2025 with Nvidia, provides sovereign GPU infrastructure so EU companies and governments can own their AI stack without depending on US or Chinese cloud providers; the lab raised $830M in debt in 2026 to build a Paris-region data-center cluster.
Versus US labs: Mistral's frontier benchmarks trail OpenAI and Anthropic, and its lineup is narrower. But it is materially cheaper, ships open weights, and is the clearest EU-native, GDPR-first option — a meaningful differentiator for European procurement and regulated industries.
OpenAI
Wider lineup + ecosystem (GPT-5 family, ChatGPT, Azure). Stronger frontier benchmarks. But closed weights, US data residency, and pricier output.
FRONTIER LEADERAnthropic
Leads coding + reasoning benchmarks with Claude. Zero-retention defaults. But no open weights, higher prices, and no EU-native data residency by default.
ENTERPRISE RAGCohere
Enterprise RAG + embeddings focus (Command, Embed, Rerank) with strong retrieval tooling. Smaller consumer presence and a narrower frontier-model story.
Aleph Alpha
German-made, used by EU governments for full data sovereignty. Compliance-strong but smaller scale and weaker public benchmarks than Mistral.
Meta
Llama open weights at huge scale, self-hostable and free to run. But no managed EU-resident API and a US-centric data + governance posture.
Alibaba (Qwen)
The Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) model family from Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Lab. First released in 2023, Qwen is the most-downloaded open-weight model family in the world — most tiers ship under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and ModelScope, while the proprietary Max tier is served through Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio.
Frequently asked.
Practical questions about Mistral AI, open weights, and EU data residency.
Q · 01 Which Mistral model should I start with? +
$1.5/$7.5) for agentic and coding work, or Mistral Large 3 ($0.5/$1.5) if you want the open-weight flagship. Mistral Large 4 ($1.36/$4.18 list, half that during its launch sale) is the largest model, but it is a public preview and its weights are not out yet. Drop to Mistral Small 4 ($0.15/$0.60) for cheap high-volume multimodal. See the use case picker above.Q · 02 Is Mistral a good choice for EU data residency? +
Q · 03 Are Mistral models open-weight? +
Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face — fully self-hostable with no per-token fee. Premier models like Mistral Medium 3.5 and Magistral Medium are API-only. Mistral Large 4 is described as open-weight, but on October 6, 2026 it launched as an API-only public preview; Mistral says the weights follow by the end of October. Check each model card before assuming a license.Q · 04 What's the data retention policy? +
Q · 05 Is there a free option? +
$0.1/M (symmetric input/output). Open weights also let you self-host any Apache-2.0 model for compute cost only.Q · 06 Can I get a discount? +
$0.05/M against $0.50/M. The calculators here apply it at the site-wide 82% cache-hit assumption. Priority-tier (low-latency) APIs run about +75% over list. Self-hosting open weights removes per-token cost entirely.