AI API price index · model maker · read 16 Oct 2026
Mistral AI API pricing
17 prices as Mistral AI publishes them — 11 text models, 2 embeddings, 2 speech to text, 1 text to speech, 1 images and documents — read on its own pricing page on 16 Oct 2026. Its current text models cost $0.10 to $7.50 per million output tokens.
Free tier No free API tier with a dollar amount is stated. mistral.ai/pricing: 'Mistral's Free plan provides limited access to Vibe ... On the Free plan, you also get access to Mistral Studio.' mistral.ai/cloud/inference FAQ: 'Yes, in Studio, you can test-prompt general models in the agent playground, or try documents and speech in the dedicated OCR and audio playgrounds.' (Paid consumer plans on mistral.ai/pricing list monthly API credits, e.g. '$15 /mo in API credits'; the page layout did not make the plan-to-credit mapping unambiguous, so no figure is assigned here.)
What to know before you build on Mistral AI
- The API price table now lives on docs.mistral.ai; mistral.ai/pricing shows the consumer plans.
- Mistral Large 4 (Public Preview) is on a temporary sale price with no end date: $0.68 in and $2.09 out, against a list price of $1.36 and $4.18. The index ranks the list price.
- Batch halves the price, cached input is 90% off, and the regional EU or US endpoints add 10%.
- Most of the lineup is open-weight — Mistral Large 3, Mistral Small 4 and the Ministral 3 models are Apache 2.0 — so the same models can also be run on your own hardware.
- No free dollar allowance is stated; Studio's playgrounds are the way to test.
Against the other ten
Across the index, 85 current text models run from $0.10 to $50.00 per million output tokens — 500×. Mistral AI’s cheapest, Ministral 3 3B at $0.10, has nothing cheaper anywhere in the index; its dearest, Mistral Medium 3.5, costs $7.50. A cheaper model is a different model, not the same one for less — compare capability before price.
Speech to text across the index runs from $0.04 to $0.552 per audio hour; Mistral AI’s Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 is $0.18.
Text to speech across the index runs from $15.00 to $80.00 per million characters; Mistral AI’s cheapest ranked voice, Voxtral TTS, is $16.00.
The same model elsewhere
Open-weight models Mistral AI sells that other hosts price too — the only like-for-like comparison in the index.
- GLM 5.3 — Fireworks AI $1.40 / $4.40 · Mistral AI $1.40 / $4.40 · Together AI $1.40 / $4.40 — the same everywhere
Input / output per 1M tokens, standard tier.
Text models
| Model | Input | Cached input | Output | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Large 4 | $0.68 | $0.07 | $2.09 | Temporary sale price (no end date); original $1.36 in / $0.14 cached / $4.18 out. Public Preview. · Not ranked: temporary sale price; the index ranks the list price. |
| Mistral Large 3 | $0.50 | $0.05 | $1.50 | — |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | $1.50 | $0.15 | $7.50 | — |
| Mistral Small 4 | $0.15 | $0.015 | $0.60 | — |
| Ministral 3 14B | $0.20 | $0.02 | $0.20 | — |
| Ministral 3 8B | $0.15 | $0.015 | $0.15 | — |
| Ministral 3 3B | $0.10 | $0.01 | $0.10 | — |
| Z.ai GLM 5.3 | $1.40 | $0.14 | $4.40 | Third-party model hosted by Mistral |
| Codestral | $0.30 | $0.03 | $0.90 | — |
| Mistral Moderation 2 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | Printed as Free · Not ranked: a safety classifier, not a general model. |
| Mistral Large 4 | $1.36 | $0.14 | $4.18 | List price — struck through on the page during the temporary sale |
Embeddings
| Model | Input | Cached input | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Codestral Embed | $0.15 | $0.015 | — |
| Mistral Embed | $0.10 | — | Price from the GA model card (not on the pricing page) |
Speech to text
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 | $0.003 per minute | Per minute of audio input; cached $0.0003 /Min |
| Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime | $0.006 per minute | Price from the GA model card (not on the pricing page) |
Text to speech
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Voxtral TTS | $16.00 per 1M characters | Printed as input $0 /M Chars, output $16 /M Chars (= $0.016 per 1K characters) |
Images and documents
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| OCR 4.1 | $4.00 per 1K pages | Per 1,000 pages; cached $0.4 /1000 Pages. mistral.ai/cloud/inference also prints 'Document AI $5 / 1000 pages' |
14 of these 17 prices are ranked in the index; the rest say why in their note. Text and embeddings per 1M tokens unless the row says otherwise.
Discounts and surcharges, as published
- Batch: 'High-volume processing, at half price' / 'Batch processing, for high-volume work, cuts the price by 50%' (the docs pricing page also has a Batch toggle).
- Cached input: 'cutting input costs by 90%' — cached-input prices are printed per model in the rows.
- Mistral Large 4 is on a 'Temporary sale price. The struck-through amount is the original price.' (tooltip on the docs pricing page; no end date given).
Where these numbers come from
Read on docs.mistral.ai/inference/pricing on 16 Oct 2026, checked against 5 more of Mistral AI’s own pages. Macrostack measures nothing and is paid by no provider on this index. Prices change; the date is the claim.
The other providers in the index
- The AI API price index — every provider, cheapest first, and the download
- OpenAI API pricing — model maker
- Anthropic API pricing — model maker
- Google Gemini API pricing — model maker
- Cohere API pricing — model maker
- Groq API pricing — open-model host
- Together AI API pricing — open-model host
- Fireworks AI API pricing — open-model host
- Replicate API pricing — open-model host
- Deepgram API pricing — voice
- ElevenLabs API pricing — voice
Questions
- How much does the Mistral AI API cost?
- On 16 Oct 2026, Mistral AI's current text models cost $0.10 to $7.50 per million output tokens at the standard tier (Ministral 3 3B to Mistral Medium 3.5). The full list, with input and cached-input prices, is on this page.
- Does Mistral AI have a free tier?
- What Mistral AI's own pages say: No free API tier with a dollar amount is stated. mistral.ai/pricing: 'Mistral's Free plan provides limited access to Vibe ... On the Free plan, you also get access to Mistral Studio.' mistral.ai/cloud/inference FAQ: 'Yes, in Studio, you can test-prompt general models in the agent playground, or try documents and speech in the dedicated OCR and audio playgrounds.' (Paid consumer plans on mistral.ai/pricing list monthly API credits, e.g. '$15 /mo in API credits'; the page layout did not make the plan-to-credit mapping unambiguous, so no figure is assigned here.)
- Does Mistral AI offer discounts?
- Batch: 'High-volume processing, at half price' / 'Batch processing, for high-volume work, cuts the price by 50%' (the docs pricing page also has a Batch toggle). Cached input: 'cutting input costs by 90%' — cached-input prices are printed per model in the rows. Mistral Large 4 is on a 'Temporary sale price. The struck-through amount is the original price.' (tooltip on the docs pricing page; no end date given).