Mistral AI (La Plateforme)
Mistral offers high-performance European-made models with a developer friendly free tier for prototyping and personal use.
🚀 Key Specs
- Model Support: Mistral-Large, Mistral-Next, Mixtral 8x22B, Pixtral (Multimodal).
- Rate Limit (Free Tier):
- 1 Request Per Second (RPS) overall limit.
- ~500k-1M Tokens Per Minute window.
- Trial Allowance: Free allowance for experimentation (no CC needed).
🗝 How to get an API Key
- Sign up at Mistral AI (console.mistral.ai).
- Go to API Keys and click Create New Key.
- Note: If you don’t add billing, your account will remain on the “Free Tier” limits.
🛠 Usage Example (Mistral SDK)
from mistralai.client import MistralClient
from mistralai.models.chat_completion import ChatMessage
api_key = "YOUR_MISTRAL_API_KEY"
client = MistralClient(api_key=api_key)
messages = [ChatMessage(role="user", content="What is Mistral?")]
chat_response = client.chat(model="mistral-large-latest", messages=messages)
print(chat_response.choices[0].message.content)