Mistral AI
Frontier AI, made in Europe
★ 4.5
European LLM provider with competitive pricing and strong open-source models. Mistral Large 3 rivals GPT-4 at lower cost. Based in Paris with EU data residency.
Features
✓ Mistral Large 3: Frontier model
✓ Mistral Medium 3: 8x lower cost
✓ Ministral 3: Edge-optimized models
✓ Function calling and JSON mode
✓ Fine-tuning support
✓ Self-hosting options
✓ EU data residency
✓ OpenAI-compatible API
Pros
- + Competitive pricing vs OpenAI
- + Strong open-source models
- + EU-based (GDPR compliance)
- + OpenAI-compatible API
- + Good cost/performance ratio
Cons
- − Smaller model selection
- − Less ecosystem tooling
- − Newer provider
- − Limited multimodal capabilities