Mistral.ai Announces New Free API, Pricing Updates, and Enhanced Models

Mistral.ai has announced significant updates, including a free API tier, enhanced pricing across its models, and the release of new enterprise-grade solutions, according to Mistral.ai.

Free Tier on La Plateforme

La Plateforme, Mistral.ai’s serverless platform, now offers a free tier. This enables developers to start experimenting, evaluating, and prototyping at no cost. Users can seamlessly upgrade to a commercial tier, benefiting from full data isolation, zero-retention options, and higher rate limits. Additionally, users have the flexibility to deploy Mistral models on various cloud infrastructures, including Azure, AWS, and GCP, or on their own tenant.

Reduced Prices Across the Board

Mistral.ai has introduced new pricing for its models, making AI more accessible and cost-effective. The price reductions are significant across several models:

These price adjustments make Mistral Large 2 the most cost-efficient frontier model and significantly enhance the affordability of smaller models, allowing customers to realize faster returns on their AI investments.

Mistral Small v24.09

The company has launched Mistral Small v24.09, an enterprise-grade small model under the Mistral Research License. This model, boasting 22 billion parameters, is designed for tasks such as translation, summarization, and sentiment analysis. It offers a middle ground between Mistral NeMo 12B and Mistral Large 2, providing a cost-effective, fast, and reliable solution for various applications.

Mistral Small v24.09 shows significant improvements in human alignment, reasoning capabilities, and code over its predecessor.

Pixtral 12B on Le Chat

Following the release of the Apache model Pixtral 12B, Mistral.ai now offers this vision-capable model for free on le Chat. Pixtral 12B supports images of any size without compromising text-based performance and can be used for scanning, analyzing, searching, captioning, and understanding personal or enterprise knowledge files. The model is available under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing users to deploy it in their own environments without transferring sensitive data to third-party providers.

These updates, including the free API tier, new pricing, and enhanced models, are now available. To explore these new capabilities, visit Mistral.ai’s platforms.

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