Plans and Pricing

Updated November 2, 2026 — Le Chat Is Now Vibe. Since May 28, 2026, Le Chat is now Vibe (still at chat.mistral.ai): a single agent for work and code, with your conversations, settings, and subscriptions carrying over. The legacy Le Chat experience remains accessible in Chat mode; in Work mode, agents are now skills (invoked with @), memories are the knowledge base, and deep search is the Deep Research skill. Plans are now called Mistral Free, Pro, Team, and Enterprise. This lesson now uses the name Vibe; some menus described here may have changed names or locations.

Understand Mistral AI Plans

Mistral AI offers several plans tailored to different profiles: from curious individuals to professional developers, including enterprise teams. The pricing grid might look dense at first, but it rests on a simple distinction you need to grasp right away: on one side, API plans, usage-based billing for those building applications; on the other, Vibe plans, monthly subscriptions for those using the conversational interface. You can use just one, or both.

API Plans (for Developers)

The Experiment plan is the free entry point for the API. It gives access to all models, no credit card required, with reduced rate limits: requests per minute are capped. In practice, this means you can learn, test, and build proofs of concept without spending a cent—but an application serving dozens of simultaneous users would quickly hit the ceiling. For this course, Experiment is exactly what you need, and it’s the plan we recommend.

The Scale plan takes over when you move to production. Its principle is pay-as-you-go: no fixed monthly subscription, you pay only for what you consume, down to the token. In exchange, you get higher rate limits (more requests per minute and per day), priority access with faster response times, and email technical support with advanced documentation. The final cost depends on the model used and the volume of tokens processed: Open models, like Mistral Small 4, are generally cheaper than Premier models, like Mistral Medium 3.1. A savvy developer prototypes on Experiment, measures actual consumption, then switches to Scale with full awareness.

Vibe Plans (for General Users)

Basic access to Vibe is free. You can converse with the main Mistral models without paying, with a limited number of daily messages and basic features: conversation and web search. To explore the tool and for occasional use, this is more than enough.

Mistral Pro, at €14.99 per month, unlocks all features for heavy individual use: unlimited messages (or significantly increased limits), priority access to the most powerful models, Deep Research for in-depth web search with analysis and synthesis, Canvas for visual collaboration in writing and code, image generation from text descriptions, and large file upload for analysis. To put the daily impact into perspective: a consultant who produces weekly synthesis notes from web sources will find enough value in Deep Research to justify the subscription alone.

Mistral Team, at €24.99 per user per month, targets professional teams. It includes all Pro plan features and adds a collaborative layer: centralized member and permission administration, shared conversations within the team, centralized billing on a single invoice, and enhanced security with SSO (Single Sign-On) and access policies. The extra cost compared to individual Pro subscriptions is justified precisely by this administration: when a team member leaves, revoking their access takes a single click.

How to Choose Your Plan

The best approach is to start with your actual situation, not the pricing grid. If you’re new to AI, start with the Experiment plan on the API side and free Vibe on the interface side: you’ll have access to everything you need to learn at no cost, and nothing will prevent you from upgrading later. If you’ve become a regular user—Vibe supports you daily with writing, research, or analysis—the Pro plan at €14.99/month offers excellent value, especially for Deep Research and Canvas. If you’re a developer, stay on Experiment as long as you’re prototyping and only switch to Scale when your application is ready for production and rate limits become your constraint. And if you work in a team, the Team plan centralizes management and gives everyone access to advanced features.

Compare with Competitors

To contextualize Mistral’s pricing: ChatGPT Plus (OpenAI) and Claude Pro (Anthropic) each cost $20 per month, which places Mistral Pro at €14.99 in a comparable, or even slightly better position. On the API side, OpenAI’s pay-as-you-go offer plays in the same category as the Scale plan. But the real difference isn’t there: Mistral’s Open models can be self-hosted, which eliminates recurring API costs for large-scale deployments. None of the closed competitors can offer this option.

Key Takeaways

• The Experiment plan (free) is enough to learn and prototype
• The Scale plan (pay-as-you-go) suits production
• Mistral Pro (€14.99/month) offers unlimited access to advanced features
• Mistral Team (€24.99/user/month) adds collaboration and administration
• Open models can be self-hosted, which can reduce costs at scale