Mistral Pricing
- AI pricing
- $14.99/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Mistral pricing starts at $14.99 a month, which is $179.88 over twelve months. There is a free plan. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 19 August 2026.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 19 August 2026.
Mistral ranking and coverage
- In AI
- #5 of 9
- Overall
- #41 of 122 tied
- Terms score
- 6.3 /10
- Referenced here
- 3 pages
Cost position 5 · Portability 8 · Subscription flexibility 6 - Ranked on published terms only: entry price against category peers, portability and subscription flexibility, equally weighted. This is not a quality score.How the rank is calculated.
Mistral pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free; Pro $14.99/month; Team $24.99 per user/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $14.99 a month, or $179.88 a year |
| How that is reached | Pro at $14.99 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | subscription |
| Priced plans published | 5 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 19 August 2026 |
Every Mistral plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 19 August 2026. Charged as subscription. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | Limited access to Vibe including the latest models, chat, search, creation and Vibe for code in the terminal, plus Mistral Studio and $10 a month in API credits |
| Pro | $14.99 | per month | Higher chat ceilings, full Vibe coding, extended thinking, deep research reports, chat and email support, $30 a month in API credits. Verified students pay $5.99 |
| Team | $24.99 | per month | per user - Up to 1,000 project folders and higher allowances than Pro - for example 200 flash answers a day against 150 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Negotiated | Custom deployments, including on customer infrastructure, arranged with sales |
| API usage Add-on | Usage-based | per usage | Priced per million tokens; Mistral Large is $0.5 in and $1.5 out. Batch processing is 50% cheaper and cached input up to 90% cheaper |
What Mistral actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | per month | $14.99 | $179.88 |
| Teamper user | per month | $24.99 | $299.88 |
Mistral pricing over time
Read from 15 archived captures of the vendor's pricing page , spanning March 2025 to September 2026. Every figure below links to the capture it came from, so you can check it against the page as it stood on the day.
- Pro has been published at $14.99 in every capture we read, from 1 June 2025 to 1 September 2026.
- Team has been published at $24.99 per user in every capture we read, from 1 June 2025 to 1 September 2026.
Pro
| Published price | Charged | Seen from | Last seen | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $14.99 | Not stated | 1 June 2025 | 1 September 2026 | Archive |
Team
| Published price | Charged | Seen from | Last seen | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $24.99 | per user | 1 June 2025 | 1 September 2026 | Archive |
1 archived capture with no price we could read
The capture exists, but the figures on it could not be extracted - usually a page that renders prices in JavaScript, or a currency selector the archive did not record. Listed rather than dropped, because a gap in a price history reads as "nothing changed" and these are not that.
- 21 March 2025 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
Compiled 18 September 2026 from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Plan names were matched against the archived page text and the first currency-anchored figure within 160 characters was recorded, rejecting any figure with a competing plan name standing between it and the name it was matched to. The currency and the unit were read from each capture rather than assumed: captures served in a currency other than $, and captures where no plan name sat beside a figure, are listed as unread rather than dropped. Archived pages show the price as served to the archive's crawler, which may differ by region from the price you are shown.
Mistral pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Mistral |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | $8 a month | Yes | −$6.99 a month (−47%) |
| Mistral | $14.99 a month | Yes | This product |
| Claude | $17 a month | Yes | +$2.01 a month (+13%) |
Which Mistral plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You want to try the assistant and the terminal coding tool | Free | Limited access to Vibe including chat, search and code, plus $10 a month in API credits, at no cost. |
| You use an assistant most working days | Pro | $14.99 a month is the cheapest paid tier of any general assistant here, and it lifts the chat ceilings and adds deep research. |
| You are a verified student | Pro at the student rate | $5.99 a month rather than $14.99, which the pricing page states directly. |
| Several people need shared project folders | Team | $24.99 a user a month, with higher daily allowances and up to 1,000 project folders. |
| You need the model on your own infrastructure | Enterprise | Deployment on customer infrastructure has its own published terms, and the open weights make it practical rather than theoretical. |
Verdict by who you are
European company with data residency requirementsYes
A European vendor publishing a DPA, EU consumer terms and in-region inference is a materially shorter procurement conversation.
Cost-conscious teamYes
$14.99 a seat is the cheapest paid general assistant we priced, and Team is published at $24.99.
Developer who works in a terminalYes
Vibe for code is an agentic coding assistant in the terminal, included from the free tier.
Team standardised on Microsoft 365 or Google WorkspaceCompare first
You are probably already paying for an assistant inside the suite. Check that before adding a seat here.
Anyone who needs a large plugin ecosystemNo
ChatGPT's integration surface is far larger, and that is a real difference.
Should you buy Mistral?
Buy Mistral if…
- Teams that need a European vendor with a published data processing addendum
- Buyers who want the option of running the model themselves
- Developers who want an assistant in the terminal as well as the browser
Do not buy Mistral if…
- Anyone who needs the largest third-party plugin ecosystem
- Teams wanting an assistant already embedded in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace
- Buyers who will not evaluate a less familiar model
Best Mistral alternative for each job
Chosen by what you are trying to do rather than by which product is closest overall, because the right replacement depends on the job.
| If you mainly need to… | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Run the model on your own infrastructure | DeepSeek | Also open-weight, and free to use, with no business controls at all. |
| Get an assistant already inside your office suite | Microsoft Copilot | From $18 a user a month paid yearly, inside the apps your staff already open. |
| Work through very long documents | Claude | Its long-context handling is what it is bought for, though it costs more. |
| Answers with sources you can open | Perplexity | Citations are the product, at $20 a month. |
What leaving Mistral would cost
low lock-in
Mistral scores on self-hostable, public API. Portability 8/10 ; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
The cheapest paid assistant here, and it says what you get
Pro is $14.99 a month, against $20 for ChatGPT Plus, $20 for Perplexity Pro, $19.99 for Gemini AI Pro and $30 for SuperGrok. Team is $24.99 a user and, unlike several rivals, that figure is on the page rather than behind a contact form.
More unusually, some of the allowances are actual numbers. Mistral states 150 flash answers a day on Pro and 200 on Team. Almost nothing else in this category will tell you that: the industry norm is “expanded access”, “higher rate limits”, or a multiple of a tier you are not on. It is not perfect - “up to 40x more image generations” is exactly the sort of framing we criticise elsewhere - but it is the closest thing to a published limit across the AI assistants we price.
Open weights make the exit route real
Mistral publishes open-weight models, and its terms include a separate document for running its products on customer infrastructure. That matters for the question this site keeps asking: what does leaving cost?
For most assistants the answer is that your prompts, projects and habits stay with the vendor. Here, the model itself can be downloaded and run, which turns a switching decision into an engineering one. Only DeepSeek offers anything comparable, and it offers no business controls at all.
What the free tier includes
Limited access to Vibe - chat, search, creation and Vibe for code, the agentic coding assistant that runs in your terminal - plus Mistral Studio and $10 a month in API credits. Pro raises that to $30.
An assistant that includes API credits in a consumer subscription is unusual, and it is a sensible bridge for someone who wants to prototype rather than just chat.
The honest gap
Ecosystem. There is no equivalent of ChatGPT’s plugin and integration surface, and nothing here arrives pre-installed in the software your colleagues already open - which is exactly the argument for Microsoft Copilot and Gemini.
We have also not benchmarked any model on this site, so nothing here says Mistral’s model beats or trails the frontier labs. What we can say is what it costs, what it publishes and what you can take with you.
Mistral questions, answered
- Is Mistral worth it?
- Mistral is the assistant to shortlist when the constraints are commercial and legal rather than purely about model quality.
- How much does Mistral cost?
- Free; Pro $14.99/month; Team $24.99 per user/month. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Pro, published at $14.99 a month, which works out at $14.99 a month or $179.88 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does Mistral have a free plan or free trial?
- Mistral has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- What is the best Mistral alternative?
- It depends on the job. ChatGPT: Wider ecosystem and more polished apps, at $20 a month rather than $14.99. Claude: Stronger on long documents and code review; no open weights and no European entity. DeepSeek: Also open-weight and free to use, with no business tier or admin controls at all.
- Can I self-host Mistral?
- Yes. Mistral can be run on your own infrastructure, so the data stays under your control.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 19 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Every claim below is about our work, not about Mistral. A "no" is recorded rather than omitted, because the difference between a tested review and careful desk research is the reader's to weigh. How we research a profile.
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from Mistral's own pricing page on 19 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
5 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
1 captured by us: pricing page
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Sources cited and dated : yes
3 primary sources, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Desk research from Mistral's own pricing, about and legal pages, read on 19 August 2026 through a United States egress. Nobody here has used Mistral, and no model quality was benchmarked - not by us and not from vendor benchmarks, which we do not republish.
Where Mistral appears on this site
3 other pages here reference Mistral. Every one is listed below, so the figure can be checked rather than taken.
- Another profile DeepSeek names it as a competitor
- Another profile Grok picks it for spend the least per seat
- Another profile Microsoft Copilot picks it for spend as little as possible per seat
Counts pages on this site that name the product by choice - price guides, pricing question pages, deal records and other profiles. Category and directory indexes list everything automatically and are not counted.
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Provenance and freshness
When each fact was last checked
- Pricing ·
- Plans ·
- Free trial
- Features
- Platforms
- Integrations
- Affiliate programme
- Company details ·
Individually sourced claims
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Mistral Pro is $14.99 a month and Team is $24.99 per user a month
Mistral pricing ↗ · checked
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Pro includes 150 flash answers a day and Team 200
Mistral pricing FAQ ↗ · checked
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Verified students can get Mistral Pro for $5.99 a month
Mistral pricing ↗ · checked
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Mistral was founded in April 2023
Mistral, about ↗ · checked
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Mistral publishes a data processing addendum and separate EU consumer terms
Mistral legal centre ↗ · checked
What has changed
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August 2026
- First published, with all plan rates read from the vendor pricing page
- Recorded the absolute daily allowances, which most of this category does not publish
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Mistral pricing - checked 19 August 2026
- Mistral, about - checked 19 August 2026
- Mistral legal centre - checked 19 August 2026
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