Mistral AI La Plateforme - Free Tier
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+ 1 Mistral AI offers a free Experiment plan on La Plateforme (their serverless API platform) that lets you use all Mistral models for experimentation and prototyping. No credit card required — just a verified phone number. Rate limits are restrictive (approximately 1 request/second per model, 500K tokens/minute, up to 1B tokens/month), but generous enough for prototyping and evaluation. The main catch: your API inputs and outputs may be used to train Mistral's models unless you manually opt out in the Admin Console.
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+ 7 1. Go to console.mistral.ai
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+ 8 2. Click "Sign up" — you can register with email/password, Google, or GitHub
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+ 9 3. Verify your email address via the confirmation link sent to your inbox
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+ 10 4. Once logged in, go to the Admin Console (accessible from the main menu in Mistral AI Studio)
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+ 11 5. Navigate to Subscription and select the Mistral AI Studio tab
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+ 12 6. Click "Compare plans", then click "Experiment for free"
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+ 13 7. Review the plan details, accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, then click Subscribe
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+ 14 8. Verify your phone number — enter a valid phone number and confirm via SMS code
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+ 15 9. Your Experiment plan is now active. Navigate to API Keys at console.mistral.ai/home and click "Create new secret key" to generate your API key
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+ 17 Important:
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+ 18 • One phone number per Experiment plan — you cannot reuse the same phone number for multiple accounts
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+ 19 • No credit card is required at any point
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+ 20 • You can start sending API requests immediately after setup
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+ 26 The Experiment plan provides access to Mistral's full model lineup. All models listed below are available via the API at their standard per-token pricing (which on the Experiment plan costs you nothing — you just hit rate limits instead of being billed).
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+ 30 ModelParametersContext WindowNotes
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+ 31 Mistral Large 3 (2512)41B active / 675B total (MoE)262K tokensMost capable model, Apache 2.0
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+ 32 Mistral Medium 3.1—131K tokensGPT-4 class performance
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+ 33 Mistral Medium 3—131K tokensStrong general-purpose model
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+ 37 ModelParametersContext WindowNotes
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+ 38 Mistral Small 3.224B131K tokensMultimodal (vision)
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+ 39 Mistral Small 3.124B131K tokensBest value small model
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+ 40 Mistral Nemo12B131K tokensCheapest model on platform
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+ 41 Ministral 3B / 8B / 14B3B–14B131K–262K tokensEdge and mobile-friendly
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+ 45 ModelContext WindowNotes
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+ 46 Codestral (2508)256K tokensCode completion
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+ 47 Devstral 2 (2512)262K tokensFrontier code agent model
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+ 48 Devstral Small 224BOptimized for consumer GPUs
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+ 52 ModelUse Case
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+ 53 Magistral Small / MediumReasoning (chain-of-thought)
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+ 54 Pixtral 12B / Pixtral LargeVision and multimodal
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+ 55 Voxtral SmallAudio transcription
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+ 56 Mistral Small CreativeCreative writing
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+ 57 SabaMiddle-Eastern and South-Asian languages
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+ 63 Rate limits on the Experiment plan are restrictive by design — they are intended for testing and prototyping, not production. Limits are set per model at the workspace level.
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+ 65 MetricApproximate Limit
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+ 66 Requests per second (RPS)~1 per model
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+ 67 Tokens per minute~500,000 per model
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+ 68 Tokens per monthUp to ~1B (varies by model)
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+ 70 Notes:
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+ 71 • Token limits include both input and output tokens combined
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+ 72 • Exact limits vary by model and may change — check your current limits at admin.mistral.ai/plateforme/limits
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+ 73 • The same inference engine runs for free and paid tiers; only concurrency and caps differ
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+ 74 • If you hit rate limits, you receive HTTP 429 errors — requests are not queued
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+ 80 This is the biggest caveat of the free tier:
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+ 82 • By default, your API inputs and outputs are used to train Mistral's models on the Experiment plan
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+ 83 • You can opt out, but it requires manual action
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+ 87 1. Log in to the Admin Console at admin.mistral.ai
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+ 88 2. Click Privacy in the left-hand navigation bar
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+ 89 3. Find the "Anonymous improvement data" section
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+ 90 4. Disable the toggle to prevent your API calls from being used for training
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+ 92 Comparison by plan:
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+ 94 PlanData Used for Training?
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+ 95 Experiment (Free)Yes, by default (opt-out available)
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+ 96 Scale (Paid)No, opted out by default
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+ 97 Team / EnterpriseNo, opted out by default
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+ 103 FeatureAvailable?
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+ 104 Chat completions APIYes
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+ 105 Embeddings APIYes
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+ 106 Function callingYes
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+ 107 JSON modeYes
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+ 108 Vision (multimodal)Yes (with supported models)
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+ 109 Code completion (FIM)Yes (Codestral)
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+ 110 Flash AnswersYes
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+ 111 Code interpreterYes
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+ 112 Document uploadsYes
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+ 113 Agents APILimited (full access requires Scale plan)
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+ 114 Fine-tuningNo (requires Scale plan)
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+ 115 Batch APINo (requires Scale plan)
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+ 121 When you outgrow the Experiment plan, the Scale plan is Mistral's pay-as-you-go tier:
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+ 122
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+ 123 • No monthly subscription fee — pure token-based billing
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+ 124 • Credit card required to activate
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+ 125 • Higher rate limits (specific limits shown in your admin dashboard)
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+ 126 • Data not used for training by default
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+ 127 • Full access to agents, fine-tuning, batch API
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+ 128 • Upgrade is seamless — your API keys and endpoints stay the same
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+ 130 Example pricing on Scale plan (per 1M tokens):
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+ 132 ModelInputOutput
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+ 133 Mistral Nemo$0.02$0.04
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+ 134 Mistral Small 3.1$0.03$0.11
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+ 135 Mistral Small 3.2$0.06$0.18
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+ 136 Codestral$0.30$0.90
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+ 137 Mistral Medium 3$0.40$2.00
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+ 138 Mistral Large 3$0.50$1.50
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+ 144 • Le Chat vs. La Plateforme — Le Chat (chat.mistral.ai) is Mistral's consumer chatbot with its own free tier (~25 messages/day). La Plateforme (console.mistral.ai) is the developer API platform. They are separate products with separate accounts and limits
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+ 145 • OpenAI-compatible API — Mistral's API follows the OpenAI API format, so most OpenAI client libraries work with minimal changes (just swap the base URL and API key)
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+ 146 • European data residency — Mistral AI is a French company. Data processing occurs in the EU, which may be relevant for GDPR compliance
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+ 147 • Open-weight models — Many Mistral models (including Mistral Large 3, Small 3.2, Nemo) are released under Apache 2.0 license. You can self-host them for free if you have the hardware, bypassing all API rate limits
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+ 148 • Context windows are generous — even on the free tier, models like Mistral Large 3 support 262K token context windows
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+ 149 • No spending caps concern — since the Experiment plan is truly free with rate limits (not credits), you cannot accidentally get billed. Billing only starts if you explicitly upgrade to Scale and add payment info
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+ 153 Sources:
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+ 154 • Mistral AI Console
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+ 155 • Mistral AI Pricing
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+ 156 • Mistral AI Rate Limits & Usage Tiers
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+ 157 • How to Try the API Free with Experiment Plan
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+ 158 • Opt Out of Data Training
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+ 159 • Mistral AI Models Documentation
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+ 160 • Mistral AI API Rate Limits FAQ
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+ 161 • Mistral 3 Announcement
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+ 162 • Mistral AI API Pricing (pricepertoken.com)
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