Mistral AI is a French company offering both open-weight and proprietary language models, with a focus on efficiency and European data sovereignty. Le Chat is its consumer chatbot built on Mistral Large, offering fast responses and web search. The Mistral API provides developers access to models ranging from Mistral 7B (open source) to Mistral Large 2, with competitive pricing per token. Mistral models are particularly strong in French and other European languages.
Stan cen: March 2026