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Mistral AI

Efficient open-weight models

Mistral AI provides both open-weight models and API access to their efficient, high-performance language models.

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Our Verdict

Mistral offers the best balance of cost and capability. Great for teams wanting open models or European data residency.

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • +Very efficient models
  • +Open weights available
  • +Great multilingual support
  • +European data residency

Cons

  • -Smaller ecosystem
  • -Less capable than GPT-4
  • -Documentation gaps

Features

Chat/CompletionYes
EmbeddingsYes
Image generationNo
VisionNo
Fine-tuningYes
Function callingYes
Self-hostingYes

Best For

Cost-effective AIEuropean companies (GDPR)Self-hosting

Pricing

Free tier available
Open models$0
  • - Self-hosted
  • - Mistral 7B
  • - Mixtral 8x7B
API - Small$0.14/M input
  • - Mistral Small
  • - Low latency
  • - Simple tasks
API - Large$2/M input
  • - Mistral Large
  • - Complex reasoning
  • - Multilingual
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