The short answer
Mistral La Plateforme is billed per token. It has a free tier: Free Experiment tier, rate-limited (~1B tokens/mo cap), all models. The paid plans we list start at $1.50 / $7.50 per 1M tokens (Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral-medium-latest)).
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral Large 3 (mistral-large-latest) | $0.50 / $1.50 per 1M tokens | Flagship general model, input/output |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral-medium-latest) | $1.50 / $7.50 per 1M tokens | Highest-tier multimodal model |
| Mistral Small 4 (mistral-small-latest) | $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M tokens | Efficient mid-size model |
| Ministral 3 - 3B (ministral-3b-latest) | $0.10 / $0.10 per 1M tokens | Cheapest edge/small model |
| Codestral (codestral-latest) | $0.30 / $0.90 per 1M tokens | Code-completion model |
| Free Experiment tier + Batch API | $0 free tier; 50% off batch | ~1B tokens/month rate-limited eval tier; 50% batch discount on all production rates (24h SLA) |
How Mistral La Plateforme bills you
The pricing model is per token. European open-weight-friendly provider with a genuine experiment free tier and competitive flagship pricing. Best suited to: open-weight european llms.
The pricing page we read

Source: https://mistral.ai/pricing/. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.
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