# Mistral AI / Le Chat — AI Compare Ninja

> AI assistant from the French provider Mistral, now called Vibe after the rename from Le Chat: chat, web search, document library, image generation and a coding mode for web, CLI and IDE.

## Overview
- **Category:** Productivity (Assistants & workspaces)
- **Status:** Renamed - Le Chat is now Vibe. Help center: "Le Chat has become Vibe, Mistral's unified agent for productivity and coding." and "Your account, plan, conversations, and saved content all move with you." Same URL, same login: chat.mistral.ai. Vibe has Work, Code and Chat modes. Product active.
- **Paid from:** $14.99 / Month (Pro)
- **Free access:** Free plan
- **Website:** https://mistral.ai/
- **Canonical URL:** https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/mistral

## What it does
- European open-source AI models and proprietary frontier models from Paris
- Free API access to Mistral 3B (small model) without a credit card on the free tier
- Mistral Medium 3 and Mistral Large 2 as frontier models for demanding tasks
- Codestral as a specialised code model for programming assistance and code review
- Le Chat: free chat workspace with web search, canvas, and file attachments
- Hosted in Europe with GDPR alignment and legal entity Mistral AI SAS in France

## In brief
Mistral AI is a French AI company developing open-source models such as Mistral 3B and proprietary frontier models including Mistral Large 2 and Mistral Medium 3. Le Chat offers a free chat workspace with web search, canvas, and file attachments.

The free tier allows API access to Mistral 3B without a credit card. Codestral specialises in coding tasks. The company Mistral AI SAS is based in France and runs its infrastructure in Europe, facilitating GDPR alignment and European data protection standards.


## Limits
The provider is a French company ("Mistral AI is a French company incorporated in Paris, under number 952 418 325"); the product is normally usable in the EU. The pricing page has a USD/EUR currency switch and a country selector listing Germany, Austria and other EU states plus the United Kingdom. The prices listed here are in US dollars; euro amounts may differ. Help center on training: for Vibe Free/Pro/Education "Input and output data are used by default to train our artificial intelligence models, unless you opt-out"; for Team/Enterprise "Input and output training is not applicable to Team and Enterprise plans. We do not use your data to train our models". For Mistral Studio pay-as-you-go: "Data used with pay-as-you-go (input and output) is not used to train our artificial intelligence models". The privacy policy names no specific server location but states "We prioritize selecting providers within the European Union that strictly adhere to the GDPR" and, for processing outside the EU, "we attach the most recent version of the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses to all such contracts".

## Pricing tiers
| Tier | Price | Period | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | free | Month | Access on web and mobile; Limited messages and web searches; Limited coding sessions; Basic image generation and editing; 100+ connectors; Up to 5 scheduled tasks |
| Pro | $14.99 | Month | More messages and web searches (provider states "Up to 6x free" for messages and "Up to 5x free" for web searches); All-day coding in the CLI, IDE, or on web; Faster responses; Generate spreadsheets and slides; Better image generation and editing; $25.5/mo in API credits; Up to 15GB library / document upload; Unlimited task scheduling (provider notes "Subject to fair usage limits"); Chat and email support; Price shown "Excluding taxes", subject to "fair usage limits" |
| Pro / Education plan (students) | $5.99 | Month | The Education column lists $15/mo in API credits. That is not the Pro credit of $25.5/mo.; Provider: "Valid for a maximum of 12 months for verified students at accredited higher institutions and if you haven't used Vibe (or Le Chat) before. Price not inclusive of taxes." |
| Team | $24.99 | User/month, minimum amount $50 per month | Even higher limits; Up to 30GB of storage per user; Domain name verification; Data export; Unlimited task scheduling ("Subject to fair usage limits"); Price "Excluding taxes"; provider shows "$50 /mo" as the minimum |
| Enterprise | contact sales | - | Custom models, custom agents, custom workflows; Audit logs; SAML SSO; White label; No published price, only "Contact us" |

## Sources
All details regarding plans, limits, and features are based on official vendor documentation and the primary sources verified below.

- https://mistral.ai/pricing
- https://mistral.ai/products/vibe/
- https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/682992-le-chat-is-now-vibe
- https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/347617-do-you-use-my-user-data-to-train-your-artificial-intelligence-models
- https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/privacy-policy

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*Source: AI Compare Ninja (2026) - https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/mistral*