Mistral AI

frontier

France · Founded 2023

Europe's frontier lab. Makes Mistral Large and Codestral.

Mistral AI was founded in Paris in 2023 by former Google DeepMind and Meta researchers. The lab's models are competitive with second-tier US frontier models and carry the only credible EU data-residency story at frontier quality. Mistral 7B was the first model to demonstrate that small models trained on curated data could outperform larger models on general benchmarks.

Main models

Mistral Large 3
Codestral
Mistral 7B

Strengths

EU data residency
GDPR compliance
Code generation
Open-weights releases

Pricing

$0.20–$6 per million tokens

Models in the almanac

Mistral Large 3 Mistral 7B Codestral

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