// At a glance
Free Tier
1 req/sec · 500k tokens/month · no card
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
Mistral Large 3CodestralPixtral
Monthly Tokens
500,000 tokens/month
Rate Limit
1 request/second
No credit card needed
No phone verification
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">from mistralai 300">"text-purple-400">import Mistral
client = Mistral(api_key=300">"YOUR_MISTRAL_KEY")
response = client.chat.complete(
model=300">"mistral-large-latest",
messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Hello."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)// Overview
Mistral's La Plateforme offers Codestral, Pixtral, and their flagship models. GDPR-compliant with EU data residency.
// Pros
- Strong European presence (GDPR)
- Open weights for top models
- Code-specialized models
// Cons
- Free tier has strict rate limits
- Vision models are newer
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)100/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)88/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)88/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
Code generationGDPR-compliant appsMultilingual tasks
// Recent changes
Jun 1, 2026Mistral Large 3 releasedadded