Our take
Mistral AI is a French-headquartered provider that builds and hosts its own family of small-to-mid-size models with strong European data-sovereignty credentials. It offers verified SOC 2, an EU endpoint, and a zero-retention option alongside 52 tracked model variants.
Use this when EU data sovereignty is required, or when your compliance review needs verified SOC 2, no prompt training, and a zero-retention option together. Pick it for exploring Mistral's own model family from 3 billion to 14 billion parameters. Skip it if you need large-model performance above 14B parameters, or if predictable throughput matters more than cost — the same model at near-identical prices can vary fivefold in speed.
- Strongest compliance documentation among sampled providers: SOC 2 attestation, EU endpoint, no prompt training, and zero-retention option all verified rather than claimed.
- Wide throughput range lets users trade latency for cost on the same model — Ministral 3 8B spans 20 to 114 TPS, and Ministral 3.3B spans 4 to 46 TPS.
- Vertically integrated: builds and hosts its own models, with 52 tracked offers in its own family.
- Throughput consistency varies sharply within identical model-price pairs. Ministral 3.3B at one price point ranges 33–46 TPS, yet the same model at a slightly higher price drops to 4 TPS.
- No large-model or premium-tier pricing visible in sample: the largest tracked model is 14 billion parameters, with no offers above this price point in provided data.
Point your tools here
https://api.mistral.ai/v1Model IDs on this page are LLMap's own slugs, built for browsing and comparing — not what Mistral AI's API expects. Its own model identifier lives in the docs above.
Privacy & data handling
These answers cover requests sent to Mistral AI through OpenRouter, as OpenRouter records them, last read 4 hours ago. For Mistral AI's own API we hold no answer: check its terms. SOC 2 and the data processing agreement below are hand-checked, not part of that sync.
We have not dated this attestation or linked the report yet.
Prompt retention: 30 days.