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Capabilities:chatcode
License:Apache-2.0 (open models)
Open sourceAPI availableLocal runtimeOpen weightsMistral
About
A French AI lab offering open-weights models (Mistral 7B, Mixtral) and powerful API models (Mistral Large). Known for efficiency and strong multilingual performance.
Pricing
Free / monthly
Mistral is an AI research lab best known for open-weights models and the Mixtral mixture-of-experts architecture. Its API offers frontier models for chat and coding, plus a free Le Chat assistant.
Key Features
- Open-weights models (Mistral 7B, Mixtral 8x7B).
- Mistral API with Large and Small models.
- Le Chat consumer assistant.
- Strong multilingual and code performance.
- Efficient MoE architecture.
- Self-hostable with vLLM or Mistral Inference.
Pricing
- Open models: free under Apache-2.0.
- API: pay per token; free tier available.
- Le Chat: free with premium tiers.
Getting Started
pip install mistralai
from mistralai import Mistral
client = Mistral(api_key="...")
resp = client.chat.complete(model="mistral-large-latest", messages=[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}])
Self-host: docker run mistralai/mistral:7b-instruct.