Getting Started
- Visit chat.mistral.ai to try Mistral’s models through the free Le Chat interface.
- Sign up for API access at console.mistral.ai to integrate Mistral models into your applications.
- Download open-weight models from Hugging Face and run them locally with your preferred inference engine.
- Explore Mistral’s fine-tuning API to customize models on your domain-specific data.
Key Features
- Exceptional efficiency delivering strong performance at smaller parameter counts, reducing inference costs significantly.
- Open-weight model family including Mistral 7B, Mixtral 8x7B MoE, and larger frontier models.
- Mixture-of-Experts architecture in Mixtral models activates subsets of parameters for faster, cheaper inference.
- Le Chat platform provides a polished conversational interface with web search and document analysis.
- Enterprise-ready API with function calling, JSON mode, and guardrails for production deployments.
- Strong European AI alternative with data sovereignty options and GDPR-compliant hosting.
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