How much does the Mistral API cost per million tokens?

Mistral AI API pricing per million tokens ranges from $0.02/$0.03 (Nemo) to $2.00/$5.00 (Magistral Medium). The flagship Mistral Large 3 costs $0.50/$1.50. The production default Mistral Small 4 costs $0.15/$0.60. Codestral costs $0.30/$0.90. Mistral 7B is deprecated, its successors are Ministral 8B ($0.15/$0.15) and Ministral 3B ($0.10/$0.10).

Is the Mistral AI API free?

The Mistral API free tier provides rate-limited evaluation access. Le Chat's free tier gives roughly 25 messages per day. The Mistral AI API free tier is enough to test models, not enough to serve production traffic. Is Mistral Small API free? Small 4 is available on the evaluation tier with rate limits, but production use requires the Scale plan. Is Mistral free for production? No, both products cap free usage heavily.

How much does Mistral Le Chat Pro cost?

Mistral Le Chat pricing: Free ($0), Pro ($14.99/month), Team ($24.99/user/month), Enterprise (custom). Mistral Le Chat Pro pricing at $14.99 is cheaper than ChatGPT Plus ($20) and Claude Pro ($20). Pro includes Mistral Vibe for coding, extended thinking, and deep research. Le Chat billing is entirely separate from API billing.

How much does Mistral OCR cost?

Mistral OCR pricing for OCR 3 (current version) is available on the API tab of mistral.ai/pricing. OCR 3 supports structured annotations, bounding boxes, and document Q&A. Mistral OCR is one of Mistral's fastest-growing products, check the official page for current per-page or per-token rates.

What does Codestral cost?

Mistral Codestral pricing: $0.30 input / $0.90 output per million tokens, with 32K context. Supports fill-in-the-middle (FIM) for IDE integration. Codestral inside Le Chat is included with Pro; Codestral through the API bills per token separately.

How does Mistral compare to OpenAI and Claude on price?

Mistral Large 3 at $0.50/$1.50 is 80% cheaper on input and 90% cheaper on output than GPT-5.4 ($2.50/$15.00). Against Claude Sonnet 4.6 ($3.00/$15.00), it's 83%/90% cheaper. Mistral also offers EU data residency and open weights, advantages no US provider matches.

Can I self-host Mistral models for free?

Yes. Mistral AI publishes open weights for Small 4, Medium 3.5, Magistral Small, Devstral Small, Ministral 14B/8B/3B, and others under Apache 2.0 or Modified MIT. Self-hosted models have zero per-token API cost, your Mistral inference cost is GPU compute. Mistral enterprise pricing: contact Mistral for custom deployment with SAML SSO, audit logs, and dedicated support.

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