Mistral AI Pricing
All plans and pricing as of 2026-05-04
Free tier available6 plansExcellent value score (9/10)
Le Chat (Free)
$0
- ✓Web chat interface with Mistral models
- ✓Mistral Small 4 + Medium 3 available
- ✓Basic features, limited rate
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API (Mistral Small 4)
$0.20/per 1M tokens
- ✓119B MoE, Apache 2.0 open-weight
- ✓Unifies Small/Magistral/Pixtral/Devstral into one model
- ✓Fast, efficient, 128K context
API (Mistral Medium 3.5)
$1.5 / $7.5/per 1M tokens (input/output)
- ✓Public preview SHIPPED 2026-04-29 -- Mistral's first 'flagship merged' model
- ✓128B dense, 256k context, 77.6% SWE-Bench Verified
- ✓Underlies new Vibe Remote Agents + Le Chat Work Mode
API (Mistral Medium 3 -- predecessor)
$1/per 1M tokens
- ✓Launched April 9, 2026
- ✓EU AI Act compliance metadata
- ✓Balanced price/performance, superseded by 3.5 for new workloads
API (Mistral Large 3)
$2/per 1M tokens
- ✓Flagship sparse MoE
- ✓256K context
- ✓MRL license (paid for commercial self-hosting)
Voxtral TTS
$0
- ✓4B-param open-source speech model, March 2026
- ✓9 languages, runs on consumer hardware
- ✓Apache 2.0
Is Mistral AI Worth the Price?
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Value Score: 9/10
Overall Score: 7.5/10 · Developers who want cheap, high-quality API access. Also strong for multilingual applications and European companies that prefer an EU-based AI provider for data residency.
Mistral is the scrappy underdog that keeps surprising people. Their models are impressively efficient -- you get near-GPT-4 quality at a fraction of the API cost. But the consumer experience (Le Chat) is rough. This is primarily a developer's tool. If you're building AI applications on a budget, Mistral should be on your shortlist.
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How Mistral AI Pricing Compares
| Tool | Free Tier | Starting Price | Value Score | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral AI(this tool) | Yes | $0 | 9/10 | 7.5 |
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| Gemma 4 (Google) | Yes | $0 | 10/10 | 8.3 |
| IBM Granite 4.0 | Yes | $0 | 9.5/10 | 8.2 |
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