Mistral AI pricing details and 27 free alternatives in AI / ML. Catalogue date October 2026.

Mistral AI Pricing 2026

not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. How we use this.

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Subtypes in AI / ML: llm_api — the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://mistral.ai/pricing, where it says: “Frontier-scale infrastructure for training and inference” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 27 alternatives. Catalogue date October 2026. Last updated 2026-11-02.

Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. Since about 2026-11-05, Mistral's Free plan covers Vibe and Studio and does not include API access… Mistral AI is high risk — effective between 2026-11-01 and 2026-11-05: Mistral's Free plan no longer includes API access. Free mode covers Vibe and Studio; creating API keys and calling the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go with prepaid credits. Source: https://docs.mistral.ai/admin/billing-usage/usage-limits Consider alternatives.

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⚠️ Pricing change: Mistral's API keeps running. Mistral Large 3 (mistral-large-2512), Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral-medium-3-5), Voxtral TTS (voxtral-mini-tts-2603), Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 (voxtral-mini-2602) and Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime (voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602) can be called until April 30, 2027, when Mistral retires them. Mistral's replacements: Mistral Large 4 for Mistral Large 3 and Mistral Medium 3.5, Voxtral TTS 3 for Voxtral TTS, Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 for Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2, and Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 for Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime. Source ↗ (effective 2027-04-30) View in changelog →

Tier

Pay-as-you-go

Free Tier Details

Since about 2026-11-05, Mistral's Free plan covers Vibe and Studio and does not include API access. Creating API keys and calling the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go with prepaid credits. Before then, Free mode let anyone create API keys with no credit card. The pricing page listed $10 a month of API credits on the Free plan until 2026-10-07. Mistral Pro costs $14.99 a month and includes $25.50 a month in API credits, shared across the API, Studio and Vibe Code. It included $30 a month until 2026-10-07. Verified students who have not used Vibe or Le Chat before can take the Education plan for $5.99 a month, for up to 12 months, with $15 a month in API credits. The Free plan has limited messages, web searches and coding sessions in Vibe. API prices: Ministral 3 (3B) $0.1/$0.1 (per 1M tokens); Mistral Small 4 $0.15/$0.6 (per 1M tokens); Mistral Large 3 $0.5/$1.5 (per 1M tokens); Mistral Large 4 (mistral-large-4; public preview since 2026-10-06, 1M-token context) $0.7/$2.1 (per 1M tokens); this price started on 2026-10-29; from 2026-10-20 until then, it was $1.36/$4.18; Mistral Medium 3.5 $1.5/$7.5 (per 1M tokens); Codestral $0.3/$0.9 (per 1M tokens). To call Mistral Large 4, use the model name mistral-large-4; mistral-large-latest still points to Mistral Large 3 (mistral-large-2512). Mistral Embed is $0.1 per 1M input tokens, and Codestral Embed is $0.15 per 1M input tokens. OCR 3 (mistral-ocr-2512) costs $2 per 1,000 pages and $3 per 1,000 annotated pages. OCR 4.1 (mistral-ocr-4-1) costs $4 per 1,000 pages and $5 per 1,000 annotated pages. OCR 3 remains available. Mistral Moderation 2 is free. Speech: Voxtral 3 models, released 2026-10-20: Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (batch) costs $0.0035 per minute of audio, Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 $0.004 per minute, Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 $0.008 per minute, and Voxtral Speech 3 (text-to-speech) $13 per 1M characters. The earlier models are still offered: Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 $0.003 per minute, Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime $0.006 per minute, and Voxtral TTS (text-to-speech) $16 per 1M characters. Mistral's voice agent API costs $0.04 per minute with Mistral Small 4 for reasoning, and $0.08 per minute with any other reasoning model. Mistral retired these models in 2026, and a request to a retired model fails with a 404 error: Mistral Large 2.1 (mistral-large-2411), Pixtral Large (pixtral-large-2411) and Devstral Medium 1.0 (devstral-medium-2507) on 2026-05-31, replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5; Devstral Small 1.1 (devstral-small-2507) on 2026-05-31, replaced by Mistral Small 4; Voxtral Mini and Voxtral Mini Transcribe (voxtral-mini-2507) on 2026-05-31, replaced by Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2; OCR 2 (mistral-ocr-2505) on 2026-05-31 and OCR 4.0 (mistral-ocr-4-0) on 2026-09-30, replaced by OCR 4.1; Mistral Moderation (mistral-moderation-2411) on 2026-06-30, replaced by Mistral Moderation 2; Mistral Small 3.2 (mistral-small-2506) and Magistral Small 1.2 (magistral-small-2509) on 2026-07-31, replaced by Mistral Small 4; Mistral Nemo 12B (open-mistral-nemo-2407) on 2026-07-31, replaced by Ministral 3 8B; Devstral 2 (devstral-2512) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (magistral-medium-2509) on 2026-07-31, and Mistral Medium 3 and 3.1 (mistral-medium-2505, mistral-medium-2508) on 2026-08-31, replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5. Mistral's table at docs.mistral.ai/models also lists the Labs models it retired. Z.ai GLM 5.2 (zai-glm-5-2) retired on 2026-10-31, replaced by GLM 5.3. Mistral deprecated Mistral Large 3 (mistral-large-2512), Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral-medium-3-5), Voxtral TTS (voxtral-mini-tts-2603), Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 (voxtral-mini-2602) and Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime (voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602) on 2026-10-31; all five retire on 2027-04-30, replaced by Mistral Large 4 for the two text models, Voxtral TTS 3 for Voxtral TTS, Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 for Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 and Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 for Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime. Batch processing is half price, and cached input tokens cost up to 90% less. Mistral publishes no rate-limit figures. Each organization's per-model limits (tokens per minute, requests per second) appear in Admin Panel > API > Limits. The tools of Mistral's MCP server are grouped by Studio capability: Skills, Workflows, Connectors, Observability, Evaluations, Organization and Apps.

Mistral AI runs its own MCP server. "The Mistral MCP server connects an AI agent to your Studio workspace over the Model Context Protocol." (From https://docs.mistral.ai/resources/mcp, read 2026-10-20.) The endpoint is https://api.mistral.ai/mcp, the transport is Streamable HTTP, and authentication uses the header "Authorization: Bearer <MISTRAL_API_KEY>".

We read that on 2026-11-02 from https://mistral.ai/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Mistral AI as "mistral ai" and states "$14.99" and "$25.5" and "$15" and "$0.5". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.

Since August 2026, Mistral offers Mistral AI Studio and its API only to business customers. Its consumer terms for personal use exclude both, and API use falls under the Commercial Terms for an organization, company or other entity. (From legal.mistral.ai/terms/row-consumer-terms, read 2026-10-11.)
A business can use Mistral's API in a commercial product; individuals cannot use the API for personal projects. (From legal.mistral.ai/terms/commercial-terms-of-service, read 2026-10-11.)
Models whose names start with "labs-" are free of charge once you have API access; Mistral calls them experimental and not for production. (From docs.mistral.ai/inference/model-lifecycle, read 2026-11-12.)
In Free mode, Mistral may use your Studio inputs and outputs to train its models, and you can opt out at any time. (From help.mistral.ai/en/articles/347617-do-you-use-my-user-data-to-train-your-artificial-intelligence-models, read 2026-11-12.)
The API opt-out toggle is under Anonymous improvement data, in the Privacy menu of the Admin panel, and is separate from the Vibe training toggle, so opting out of one does not opt out of the other. (From help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-for-training, read 2026-10-05.)
Mistral may train on inputs and outputs from Labs or Preview Models, which its Commercial Terms define as experimental, preview or pre-release models identified as such, including those with the "labs" prefix, even if you opted out or use zero data retention. Mistral Large 4 is a public preview. (From legal.mistral.ai/terms/commercial-terms-of-service, read 2026-10-11.)
Le Chat is now called Vibe. "Vibe is the new name for what you knew as le Chat." Accounts and plans moved over. A Le Chat Pro subscription is now Mistral Pro. (From help.mistral.ai/en/articles/682992-le-chat-is-now-vibe, read 2026-10-21.)
Pay-as-you-go uses prepaid credits. Your monthly usage is consumed first. API and Vibe Code requests beyond it fail with HTTP 402 if your credit balance is zero. Add credits to restore access. Auto Recharge charges your payment method when your balance falls below a set threshold. (From docs.mistral.ai/admin/billing-usage/billing, read 2026-11-04.)
An Organization monthly spending limit caps API and Vibe spending. Each Workspace can have its own monthly spending limit, no higher than the Organization's. By default Workspaces have no cap. If the limit is reached, API access can be suspended until the next month begins or an admin increases the limit. (From docs.mistral.ai/admin/billing-usage/billing, read 2026-11-04.)
Enabling pay-as-you-go unlocks Tier 1. Tiers upgrade automatically with the cumulative billed amount: Tier 2 over $20 billed, Tier 3 over $100, Tier 4 over $500. Over $2,000 billed, contact support. Adding credits does not raise your rate limits. Article dated August 12, 2026. (From help.mistral.ai/en/articles/698531-why-am-i-hitting-api-rate-limits-and-how-do-i-increase-them, read 2026-11-04.)
The global endpoint api.mistral.ai has no committed inference location. Regional endpoints api.eu.mistral.ai and api.us.mistral.ai are billed at 1.1 times standard pricing. They support function calling as the only tool and do not offer Agents, Batch or the Files API. (From docs.mistral.ai/inference/regional-inference, read 2026-11-04.)
Zero Data Retention requires pay-as-you-go and applies only to stateless API calls. Mistral reviews each request and approves or denies it. Not available for agents, conversations, libraries, batch files, or the Files API. (From help.mistral.ai/en/articles/347612-can-i-activate-zero-data-retention-zdr, read 2026-11-04.)
Only Priority Tier has an uptime SLA of 99.5%. It requires account setup with Mistral and custom per-model limits. Standard and Batch tiers have no SLA. (From docs.mistral.ai/inference/priority-tier, read 2026-11-04.)

Pricing Change History (7 recorded)

deprecated effective 2027-04-30 medium impact

Mistral's API keeps running. Mistral Large 3 (mistral-large-2512), Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral-medium-3-5), Voxtral TTS (voxtral-mini-tts-2603), Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 (voxtral-mini-2602) and Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime (voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602) can be called until April 30, 2027, when Mistral retires them. Mistral's replacements: Mistral Large 4 for Mistral Large 3 and Mistral Medium 3.5, Voxtral TTS 3 for Voxtral TTS, Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 for Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2, and Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 for Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime. Source ↗

Before: Mistral Large 3, Mistral Medium 3.5, Voxtral TTS, Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 and Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime were current Mistral API models.

After: Mistral's models page lists all five as deprecated on 10/31/2026 with a retirement date of 4/30/2027 (docs.mistral.ai/models, read 2026-11-05).

removed effective between 2026-11-01 and 2026-11-05 high impact

Mistral's Free plan no longer includes API access. Free mode covers Vibe and Studio; creating API keys and calling the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go with prepaid credits. Source ↗

Before: The 2026-11-01 archive capture of docs.mistral.ai/admin/billing-usage/usage-limits: "Free mode lets you create API keys and use included monthly usage within the limits shown on the Limits page." The 2026-10-31 capture of Mistral's API key quickstart: "Free mode: API access is enabled by default with no credit card required."

After: docs.mistral.ai/admin/billing-usage/usage-limits, read 2026-11-12: "Free mode includes a monthly usage budget for trying Vibe and Studio. It doesn't include API access. Creating API keys and using the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go." The API key quickstart now requires "a plan with API access" and points to billing setup to add a payment method.

restructured discovered 2026-10-07 · effective date unknown medium impact

Mistral's pricing page stopped listing an API credit on the Free plan. It had listed $10 a month. Mistral's docs still say each plan includes monthly usage but give no amount. Source ↗

Before: Free plan: "... Limited coding sessions. State-of-the-art image generation. Test Mistral models in Studio. $10 /mo in API credits. 100+ connectors." (mistral.ai/pricing, Internet Archive capture of 2026-10-07 14:48 UTC)

After: Free plan: "Your personal AI agent for everyday tasks. Test out Vibe's capabilities. Access on web and mobile. Limited messages and web searches. Limited coding sessions. Basic image generation and editing. 100+ connectors." (Internet Archive capture of 2026-10-07 22:04 UTC). Mistral's docs (Usage and limits, read 2026-10-07): "Free mode lets you create API keys and use included monthly usage within the limits shown on the Limits page."

corrected effective 2026-10-01 medium impact

Data correction - The record described Mistral's $10 monthly API credit as an addition to the Free plan. Mistral's docs show free API use now draws on that credit, shared with Studio and Vibe Code, and can stop when it is used up. Source ↗

Before: pricing_restructured dated 2026-08-14, summarised as the Free plan gaining a monthly API credit

After: Same record and date, summarised as the free API moving to a monthly allowance shared across Studio, the API and Vibe Code

corrected effective 2026-09-27 medium impact

Data correction - Mistral's $10 monthly API credit appeared on its Free plan between 2026-08-11 and 2026-08-14, not on 2026-09-03. The old free-tier rate limit our record quoted was our own listing's figure, not one Mistral published. Source ↗

Before: Recorded as pricing_restructured dated 2026-09-03, comparing Mistral's page with our listing's text

After: pricing_restructured dated 2026-08-14, with both states from the Internet Archive's 2026-08-11 and 2026-08-14 captures

restructured effective 2026-08-14 high impact

Mistral's free API moved to a $10 monthly allowance shared across Studio, the API and Vibe Code; when it is used up, usage can stop unless pay-as-you-go is on. Before, the docs described a free API tier with restrictive rate limits, and the Free plan listed no API credit. Source ↗

Before: Free plan with no API credit line: "Access to Mistral's SOTA models." (mistral.ai/pricing, Internet Archive capture of 2026-08-11). Mistral's docs, capture of 2026-04-07: "a free API tier with restrictive rate limits".

After: Free plan: "Test out Vibe's capabilities. Access on web and mobile. Limited messages and web searches. Limited coding sessions. State-of-the-art image generation. Test Mistral models in Studio. $10 /mo in API credits." The credit first appears between the Internet Archive's 2026-08-11 and 2026-08-14 captures of mistral.ai/pricing. Mistral's docs (Subscriptions, read 2026-10-01): "Each Mistral plan includes monthly usage that is shared across Studio, the API, and Vibe Code." Without pay-as-you-go, "usage can stop until the next billing period".

restricted effective 2026-08-05 medium impact

Since 2026-08-05 Mistral's consumer terms exclude Mistral AI Studio and its API, which Mistral limits to business customers; API use falls under its Commercial Terms. Source ↗

Before: "These Terms of Service (these “Terms”) govern your personal use as a consumer outside of the EEA of Mistral AI Studio, Vibe and the other websites, products, software, services, and technologies we offer" (Mistral consumer terms outside the EEA, version effective 28 May 2026)

After: "govern your personal use as a consumer outside of the EEA of Vibe and the other websites, products, software, services, and technologies we offer, but excluding Mistral AI Studio and access to any of our APIs, which are limited to business customers" (version effective 5 August 2026, unchanged in the 25 September 2026 version; Mistral's EEA consumer terms made the same change on 7 August 2026)

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Service	Free Tier	Stability
Mistral AI	Pay-as-you-go	not_a_free_offer
Cloudflare Workers AI	Free Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network. Every account gets 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, reset daily at 00:00 UTC; on the Workers Free plan, requests beyond that fail until the reset.	caution
OpenRouter	Free AI model router. Free plan: 50 requests a day, no BYOK.	stable
Pollinations.AI	Free Keyless Classic API: one image model and GPT-OSS 20B text, free, no sign-up, rate-limited per IP. Every other model needs an API key and Pollen, and free Pollen comes only from quests.	caution
Google Gemini API	Free (Reduced) Free tier: Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Gemini Embedding 2 and Gemma 4 are free of charge. Also free of charge are Gemini 3.8 Live (real-time voice), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate (translation), Gemini 3.5 Transcribe…	stable
Lumenfall.ai	Free AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several providers, billed at each provider's price with no markup, platform fee or subscription. One model, FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8, is listed free per image ("Free to try", served through Fireworks AI).	stable
Groq	Free Fast LLM inference on Groq's LPU hardware. Free plan: gpt-oss-20b, gpt-oss-120b and Qwen3.8 27B, each at 30 requests a minute, 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day, plus Whisper speech-to-text at 2,000 requests a day.	caution
LLM7.io	Free LLM inference gateway. With a free token from dash.llm7.io: 1 request a second, 60 a minute, 250 an hour and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, counting input and output tokens; LLM7 says free quotas may be reduced without notice.	caution
Hetzner Inference API	Free Hetzner's experimental Inference API: an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, free while it stays experimental. Base URL: https://inference.hetzner.com/api/v1.	stable
Hugging Face	Free ML model hub. Since 2026-10-07, free accounts get no included Inference Providers credits: free users buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers, which serves 200+ models.	caution
Maxim AI	Free Simulate, evaluate, and observe your AI agents — The 'OSS' tier is free forever for developers, small teams, and self-managed deployments. It includes features like a drop-in replacement, OTel compatibility, metrics & traces, built-in observability, budget management, and more.	stable
NVIDIA NIM	Free Free inference endpoints on build.nvidia.com: models marked Free Endpoint, including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, gpt-oss-20b, Gemma 4 31B and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, can be called at no cost. Their model IDs are deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash, z-ai/glm-5.3-flash, openai/gpt-oss-20b,…	stable
Cohere	Free AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: calls made with it are free and limited to 1,000 API calls a month.	stable
Keywords AI	Free Rebranded to Respan; keywordsai.co redirects to respan.ai. Free plan: full platform, 100k logs, 1k scores, 5 datasets, 2 evaluators, 5 prompts.	source unconfirmed
Zhipu AI	Free China-based GLM model API. The price list marks these models free: GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4-Flash-250414 and GLM-Z1-Flash (text); GLM-4.6V-Flash, GLM-4V-Flash and GLM-4.1V-Thinking-Flash (vision); CogView-3-Flash (image); CogVideoX-Flash (video).	source unconfirmed
Portkey	Free Control panel for Gen AI apps featuring an observability suite & an AI gateway. Send & log up to 10,000 requests for free every month.	unrated
SiliconFlow	Free Pay-as-you-go model inference. siliconflow.cn, run by a Beijing company, lists these models at no charge: the chat models Qwen3-8B, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Free), Qwen3.5-4B, GLM-4-9B-0414, GLM-Z1-9B-0414, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (Free) and Xing4.0-29B; the translation model Hunyuan-MT-7B; the OCR…	unrated
Fireworks AI	Free Credits Inference platform for open models, with serverless per-token pricing and on-demand GPU deployments billed per GPU second. Fireworks offers $1 in free credits to get started.	unrated
Baseten	Basic (Free Credits) ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount.	unrated
Cerebras	Trial Ultra-fast LLM inference API — no permanent free tier. New accounts get $5 in free credits after adding a verified payment method, expiring 30 days after they are granted.	risky
Together AI	Pay-as-you-go Inference API for open-source models, billed per token. Together AI does not currently offer free trials; access requires a minimum $15 credit purchase for an organization's first purchase ($5 for later purchases), and the platform is fully prepaid.	unrated
Ollama Cloud	Pay-as-you-go Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs. Between October 26 and 27, 2026, Ollama replaced its Free plan, which included starter usage credits, with a $0 Pay as you go plan.	unrated
MiniMax	Pay-as-you-go MiniMax sells API access pay-as-you-go on platform.minimax.io. Its pricing pages list no free API allowance; one docs page mentions a free quota for new pay-as-you-go users but gives no amount.	unrated
OpenAI	Pay-as-you-go AI API platform. One model is priced Free in OpenAI's own table: the moderation model omni-moderation-latest.	unrated
xAI	Pay-as-you-go Grok API, pay as you go: sign up at console.x.ai, then load it with credits. grok-4.7 $2.00/$6.00 (per 1M tokens, under 200k prompt tokens).	unrated
DeepSeek API	Pay-as-you-go Pay-as-you-go LLM API with no free tier, billed from a prepaid balance. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (deepseek-flash): $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output at peak.	unrated
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Mistral AI free?

Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. Since about 2026-11-05, Mistral's Free plan covers Vibe and Studio and does not include API access. Creating API keys and calling the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go with prepaid cred... Mistral AI runs its own MCP server. "The Mistral MCP server connects an AI agent to your Studio workspace over the Model Context Protocol." (From https://docs.mistral.ai/resources/mcp, read 2026-10-20.) The endpoint is https://api.mistral.ai/mcp, the transport is Streamable HTTP, and authentication uses the header "Authorization: Bearer <MISTRAL_API_KEY>".

Is Mistral AI's free tier good for production?

Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. There is no free tier here to run in production.

What changed in Mistral AI's pricing?

Mistral AI has had 5 recorded pricing changes. Most recently: Mistral's Free plan no longer includes API access. Free mode covers Vibe and Studio; creating API keys and calling the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go with prepaid credits. Source: https://docs.mistral.ai/admin/billing-usage/usage-limits (effective between 2026-11-01 and 2026-11-05).

What are the best free alternatives to Mistral AI?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 27 free alternatives to Mistral AI in AI / ML, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 13 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 6 are demoted with the reason named, 8 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

What category is Mistral AI in?

Mistral AI is categorized under AI / ML on AgentDeals. We list 27 other AI / ML services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.