What is Mistral AI?
Mistral's Vibe assistant, Studio API and open-weight models.
Who is Mistral AI best for?
Mistral AI is best for developers and teams who want open-weight models and an API, with data kept in the EU.
Coding in the terminal and IDE
Vibe runs coding agents in the command line and in VS Code and JetBrains, and Pro allows all-day use.
Teams that need EU or private hosting
Mistral's own cloud runs on servers in the EU, and Studio can be deployed in your own cloud or on-premises.
Developers building on an API
Studio gives API access to Mistral's models, and even the Free plan includes $10 a month in API credits to try them.
Students on a budget
Verified students can get the Pro plan for $5.99 a month for up to 12 months.
How much does Mistral AI cost?
Mistral AI's Vibe assistant is free with limited messages and $10 a month in API credits, and its paid plans cost $14.99 a month for Pro or $24.99 per user a month for Team.
- Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions in Vibe
- $10 a month in API credits to test models in Studio
- Image generation and 100+ connectors on web and mobile
- Up to 6x the messages, 5x the web searches and 40x the images of Free
- All-day coding with Vibe in the CLI, IDE or web
- $30 a month in API credits, chat and email support
- At least 2 users, so from $50 a month
- Up to 30GB of storage per user
- Domain name verification and data export
Prices exclude taxes, and there is no yearly billing option on the page. Verified students at higher education institutions who have not used Vibe or Le Chat before get Pro as the Education plan for $5.99 a month, for up to 12 months, with $15 a month in API credits. Enterprise adds custom models and agents, audit logs, SAML SSO, white label and private deployments, priced on request. Past a plan's limit you can keep going on pay-as-you-go credits at API rates; API models are priced per million tokens on Mistral's separate API pricing page. Full pricing on mistral.ai. We checked these prices on .
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Questions about Mistral AI
What is Mistral AI?
Mistral's Vibe assistant, Studio API and open-weight models.
Who is Mistral AI for?
Mistral AI is best for developers and teams who want open-weight models and an API, with data kept in the EU.
Is Mistral AI free?
Yes. Mistral AI has a free plan: limited messages, web searches and coding sessions in Vibe.
How much does Mistral AI cost?
Mistral AI's paid plans are Pro at $14.99 per month and Team at $24.99 per user per month.
What are the best Mistral AI alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are DeepSeek, Cohere and Claude.
Where can I try Mistral AI?
On its official website, mistral.ai.
Do Mistral AI plans include API credits?
Yes. Mistral AI's Free plan includes $10 a month in API credits for Mistral Studio and Pro includes $30 a month. Past that, API use is billed per million tokens, for example $0.5 input and $1.5 output per million tokens for Mistral Large 3.
Does Mistral AI have a student discount?
Yes. Verified students at higher education institutions pay $5.99 a month instead of $14.99 for Pro, sold as the Education plan with $15 a month in API credits. It lasts up to 12 months and is only for students who have not used Vibe or Le Chat before.
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