How much does Mistral AI cost?

Mistral AI publishes 9 tiers, from $0.003/per minute of audio for Voxtral Mini Transcribe up to $7.5/per million output tokens for Mistral Medium 3.5 output. The cheapest paid tier is $0.003/per minute of audio.

Does Mistral AI have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: Mistral AI is listed as usage-based. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Voxtral Mini Transcribe and Voxtral TTS on Mistral AI?

Voxtral TTS costs $0.016/per 1,000 characters against $0.003/per minute of audio, and adds text-to-speech.

Is the Mistral Medium 3.5 output plan on Mistral AI worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is same model. It costs $7.5/per million output tokens against $0.003/per minute of audio for Voxtral Mini Transcribe. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

What am I actually paying for with Mistral AI?

The record we hold does not itemise what each tier includes beyond the plan names and prices. The Mistral AI review carries whatever feature detail is available.

Does Mistral AI charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 9 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Mistral AI prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Mistral AI against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Mistral AI to make a useful price comparison.

Software · pricing

Mistral AI pricing

Mistral AI publishes 9 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: On request
Model: Usage-based
Tiers: 9
Free tier: Not on record

Mistral AI plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Mistral AI pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Voxtral Mini Transcribe	$0.003/per minute of audio	1	Entry tier
Voxtral TTS	$0.016/per 1,000 characters	1	+$0.013000000000000001/per 1,000 characters, 1 more feature
Mistral Small 4	$0.15/per million input tokens	3	+$0.134/per million input tokens, 3 more features
Mistral Large 3	$0.5/per million input tokens	1	+$0.35/per million input tokens, 1 more feature
Mistral Small 4 output	$0.6/per million output tokens	1	+$0.09999999999999998/per million output tokens, 1 more feature
Mistral Large 3 output	$1.5/per million output tokens	1	+$0.9/per million output tokens
Mistral Medium 3.5	$1.5/per million input tokens	1	+$0/per million input tokens, 1 more feature
Mistral OCR 4.1	$4/per 1,000 pages OCR	1	+$2.5/per 1,000 pages OCR, 1 more feature
Mistral Medium 3.5 output	$7.5/per million output tokens	1	+$3.5/per million output tokens, 1 more feature

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Voxtral Mini Transcribe

$0.003/per minute of audio

The entry tier. It covers speech-to-text minimum.

Voxtral TTS

$0.016/per 1,000 characters

Over Voxtral Mini Transcribe, this tier adds:

Text-to-speech

Mistral Small 4

$0.15/per million input tokens

Over Voxtral TTS, this tier adds:

Multimodal
Multilingual
Apache 2.0 license

Mistral Large 3

$0.5/per million input tokens

Over Mistral Small 4, this tier adds:

General-purpose flagship

Mistral Small 4 output

$0.6/per million output tokens

Over Mistral Large 3, this tier adds:

Same model

Mistral Large 3 output

$1.5/per million output tokens

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Mistral Small 4 output on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Mistral Medium 3.5

$1.5/per million input tokens

Over Mistral Large 3 output, this tier adds:

Long-horizon tasks

Mistral OCR 4.1

$4/per 1,000 pages OCR

Over Mistral Medium 3.5, this tier adds:

Document text extraction

Mistral Medium 3.5 output

$7.5/per million output tokens

Over Mistral OCR 4.1, this tier adds:

Same model

Before you pay for Mistral AI

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 9 tiers between $0.003/per minute of audio and $7.5/per million output tokens, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Mistral AI against the tools that do have one before committing.

Mistral AI runs on web, api, self-hosted, cloud (aws, google cloud, azure, sap, ibm, snowflake, nvidia, outscale). The full record is on the Mistral AI review.

Mistral AI pricing on the vendor's own site