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Mistral (Vibe, formerly Le Chat, and API)

A French AI lab's assistant and coding agent, Vibe (formerly Le Chat), plus Mistral Studio for its API and open-weight models.

No-codeFree plan
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Our take Kratuva

Best for
European teams and builders who want low cost models with open-weight options they can later host themselves.
Not for
Teams on Free, Pro or Team who will not change the training setting before pasting client work in.

Price

From
$14.99/month(Pro); Team $24.99 per user/month; API Mistral Large $0.5 per 1M input and $1.5 per 1M output tokens
Model
per user per month for Vibe plans; free and pay-as-you-go API tiers, per token
Free plan
Yes
Checked
9 Oct 2026

Prices change. Check the vendor page before you buy.

What Mistral (Vibe, formerly Le Chat, and API) is good at

  • A Free plan, Pro at $14.99/month and Team at $24.99 per user/month, with Pro including $15/month in API credits.
  • Low API prices: Mistral Large is $0.5 per 1M input and $1.5 per 1M output tokens, batch halves the price and cached input is up to 90% cheaper.
  • Several models, such as Mistral Large 3, are open-weight under Apache 2.0, and Enterprise can deploy self-hosted or in a private cloud.

Where Mistral (Vibe, formerly Le Chat, and API) breaks

  • Vibe input and output are used to train Mistral's models by default unless you opt out; only Enterprise is opted out by default, and the pricing table lists Free, Pro and Team as opt-out.
  • On Mistral Studio's free mode, Mistral may use your API data for training unless you opt out.
  • Paid plans are subject to fair usage limits, and going past your plan limit is billed at API rates as pay-as-you-go credits.

When a custom build beats Mistral (Vibe, formerly Le Chat, and API)

When privacy or cost at volume matters, running an open-weight Mistral model on your own servers removes per token fees and keeps data in your environment.

Setup

No-code. Someone comfortable with spreadsheets can set it up. No code needed.

Sources

  1. mistral.ai/pricing
  2. help.mistral.ai/en/articles/347617-do-you-use-my-user-data-to-train-your-artificial-intelligence-models
  3. docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/

Price checked 9 Oct 2026. If something here is out of date, email indra@kratuva.com and we will fix it.

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Checked 9 Oct 2026

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