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Mistral AI
Assistant (Le Chat) and developer API (La Plateforme). Publishes open-weight models, so you are not locked into a hosted API.
- Based in
- Paris, France
- Licence
- Proprietary + open-weight models
- Hosting
- both
- Data residency
- French AI lab; EU-hosted API, plus open-weight models you can self-host.
- Free tier
- Le Chat has a free tier.
- Paid from
- Usage-based API pricing; paid Le Chat plans.
- Best for
- Teams wanting European LLMs, including open-weight models they can run themselves.
- Alternative to
- OpenAI ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot
Sources: mistral.ai (Mon Jul 06 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time))