A European assistant whose paid tier costs less than the 20 dollar plans of ChatGPT and Claude.
Price checked 02.11.2026
About the company
Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI in Paris in 2023 after working at Google DeepMind and Meta. The company releases many of its models with open weights and sells Le Chat, its assistant, to people and companies who want an alternative to the American labs. Le Chat Pro costs 14.99 dollars and includes monthly API credits. Students verified through the education plan pay 5.99 dollars.
Sources: mistral.ai
What it does
- Web search and coding sessions
- Spreadsheet and slide generation
- Over 100 connectors
- API credits included with Pro
What it costs
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0per month | limited messages and searches |
| Promost picked | $14.99per month | higher limits, $15 API credits a month |
| Team | $24.99per seat / month | up to 30 GB storage per user |
| Enterprise | on request | private deployment, SSO |
Worth it?
Stronger
- Cheaper paid tier than ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro
- API credits come with the subscription
Weaker
- A smaller ecosystem of plugins and apps than ChatGPT
- Image generation is basic on the free tier
- Reads files you upload
- Writes and runs code
- Generates images
- Phone app
- Has an API
- Open weights