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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source:
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