Mistral AI has announced a series of updates aimed at making frontier AI more accessible to everyone. The key highlights of this announcement include:
Free Tier on La Plateforme: A new free tier is now available on la Plateforme, allowing developers to experiment, evaluate, and prototype with Mistral models as API endpoints at no cost. This tier can seamlessly evolve into a commercial tier, offering full data isolation and higher rate limits. Users can deploy these models on various infrastructures, including cloud partners like Azure, AWS, and GCP, or on their own tenant.
Pricing Update: Prices have been reduced across all Mistral models. For instance, Mistral Nemo now costs $0.15 per million input and output tokens, a 50% drop from the previous price of $0.3 per million tokens. Similarly, Mistral Small and Codestral have seen an 80% price reduction, while Mistral Large has been reduced by 33%.
New Mistral Small: Mistral Small v24.09, an enterprise-grade small model, has been unveiled. This model offers 22 billion parameters, making it a cost-effective solution for tasks like translation, summarization, and sentiment analysis. It is available under the Mistral Research License and can be self-deployed for non-commercial purposes.
Free Vision Capabilities on Le Chat: Pixtral 12B, a vision-capable model with image understanding capabilities, is now freely available on le Chat. This model supports images of any size without degrading text-based performance and can be used for scanning, analyzing, searching, captioning, and understanding personal or enterprise knowledge files.
These updates aim to make Mistral AI's offerings more accessible and cost-efficient, enabling customers to realize faster returns on their AI investments. The new features and pricing are now available, and users can try them out on le Chat and la Plateforme.
