Mistral is best for freelancers who want a European provider, developers and small teams interested in Mistral's European positioning and model ecosystem and small teams already writing in French. Its clearest advantage: Free plan available on web and mobile.
- Avoid if
- teams needing the largest third-party plugin ecosystem
- Cheapest useful plan
- $14.99/mo · Pro
- Free plan
- Yes
- Setup effort
- easy: minutes
- Main limitation
- Smaller third-party ecosystem than the US incumbents
- Free plan available on web and mobile
- Paid plan includes API credits, not only chat
- teams needing the largest third-party plugin ecosystem
- anyone whose workflow depends on a specific competitor's integrations
What it actually does
Vibe, the assistant formerly split between Le Chat and Work, Fast and Think modes in one conversation, skills, including deep research, spreadsheet analysis and generated documents, API credits included in paid plans.
Before you pay
Free or Pro
Le Chat has a free plan on web and mobile, with message and search limits. Pro raises those limits and includes API credits, which matters if you also build small automations. Team is priced per user for shared work.
What a year costs
Prices exclude taxes. Pro is $14.99 a month, $179.88 a year. Team is $24.99 per user a month, $299.88 a year per user. Enterprise starts at $50 a month. Verified students pay $5.99 a month. We read the same $14.99 on 12 August, 10 October and 25 October.
What we would check before paying
Whether the apps you rely on connect to it: the third-party ecosystem is smaller than the US incumbents'. Product names have moved quickly, so check the documentation date when you read about a feature.
What changed recently
Enterprise accounts start migrating from Le Chat to Vibe; administrators choose when, within about six months. Free, Pro and Teams accounts have been migrating since 14 September. Source ↗
Read on each vendor's official changelog, not tested by us.
The limits to know
- Smaller third-party ecosystem than the US incumbents
- Message and search limits apply on the free plan
- Product naming has moved quickly, so documentation can lag
Pricing & billing commitment
- Rate on record
- $14.99/mo · Pro
- What that figure is
- Month-to-month rate per account, read on the vendor's monthly view.
- Commitment
- None: payable one month at a time
- The vendor's exact condition
- monthly billing, excluding taxes
The pricing page, as read
In practice
- Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android, API
- Integrations
- API, Connectors, Mistral Studio
- Setup
- easy: minutes
Mistral in our comparisons
Alternatives to Mistral
Compare side by side:Mistral / ChatGPTMistral / ClaudeMistral / Microsoft 365 Copilot
Frequently asked questions
What is Mistral?
Mistral is a tool from Mistral AI, used mainly for everyday assistant work, document analysis, coding help. Main features: Vibe, the assistant formerly split between Le Chat and Work, Fast and Think modes in one conversation, skills, including deep research. It has a permanent free plan; the paid entry point is $14.99/mo · Pro.
How much does Mistral cost?
The paid entry point is $14.99/mo · Pro. Month-to-month rate per account, read on the vendor's monthly view. The exact condition attached to that figure: monthly billing, excluding taxes. Read on the official pricing page on 25.10.2026. Prices move quickly: confirm before subscribing.
Does Mistral have a free plan?
Yes. Mistral publishes a permanent free plan. Check this before settling on it: smaller third-party ecosystem than the us incumbents.
What devices and tools does Mistral work with?
According to the vendor's documentation, Mistral runs on: Web, iOS, Android, API. Documented integrations: API, Connectors, Mistral Studio. Listed from the official sources, not tested by us: check your own setup on the free plan.
How we checked this record
The evidence record
- Evidence level
- Vendor documented: Official documentation and pricing page reviewed and dated. No independent verification, no hands-on test recorded.
- Affiliate status
- No affiliate link on this record, no commission.
Hands-on test
No automated hands-on test has been completed for this review cycle. This record rests on the vendor's official documentation and pricing page, re-read and dated. We say so rather than imply otherwise.
The research record
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France; screenshot kept
Confirmed in the pricing page's text, which renders the monthly figure, from France
Read on the vendor's monthly view
Sources
The official pages this record rests on. No tracking links here: these addresses name the vendor.
What the vendor states
These statements come from the vendor's own documentation. They are useful, and they remain the vendor's: we report them attributed rather than adopt them as our own findings.
- data residency
Mistral states that its service operates under EU jurisdiction as a European vendor, which is the basis of its data-residency positioning.
mistral.ai ↗
We have not independently verified this statement during this research cycle. Official documentation is valid evidence: it is just not our own finding.
Evidence freshness
Each kind of check has its own clock and its own threshold. A price ages in weeks and a feature list in months; sharing one date between them would let an old review pass for a recent check.
| Check | When | State |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Checked 18 days ago | Fresh |
| Features | Checked 18 days ago | Fresh |
| Privacy & data | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Hands-on test | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Page review | Checked 92 days ago | Due soon |
What remains unverified
- No workflow was run inside the product. Everything here comes from the vendor's documentation and public pages.
- Data handling and the privacy policy were not independently verified during this research cycle. We therefore publish no conclusion about security or where data is stored.
- Export terms and the real cost of leaving are not on this record: we have not tested them.