Mistral AI

Model

API for Mistral's open-weight and commercial language models

Price: Free tier, then paid
Access: API key

About

Mistral AI's API serves its Medium, Large and Small models plus Codestral, embeddings, OCR and speech. It is for developers who want a European model provider with EU or US inference endpoints. Many of its models are also released as open weights.

What you can do with it

Add chat, reasoning and text summarization to your app with Mistral models
Complete and generate code with Codestral and Mistral Medium 3.5
Create text and code embeddings for search and RAG

Get started

Create a Mistral AI account
Generate an API key in the console
Set MISTRAL_API_KEY in your environment

Example

curl https://api.mistral.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MISTRAL_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistral-medium-3-5",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "What is Mistral AI?"}
    ]
  }'

Details

Hosting: Hosted service, Self-hosted
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
MCP server: Remote