Quickstart

Start using Mistral AI API

To get started with Mistral AI, you need to create an account and set up your payment information; once done you can create an API key and start using our API.

• Create a Mistral account or sign in at https://console.mistral.ai.
• Then, navigate to your "Organization" settings at https://admin.mistral.ai.
• To add your payment information and activate payments on your account, find the billing section under Administration.
  • You may be later prompted to select a plan; pick between Experiment (free experimental tier) and Scale (pay as you go) plans.
• You can now manage all your Workspaces and Organization via this page.
• Return to https://console.mistral.ai once everything is settled.
• After that, go to the API keys page under your Workspace and create a new API key by clicking "Create new key". Make sure to copy the API key, save it securely, and do not share it with anyone.

Mistral AI API provides a seamless way for developers to integrate Mistral's state-of-the-art models into their applications and production workflows with just a few lines of code. Our API is currently available through La Plateforme. You need to activate payments on your account to enable your API keys. After a few moments, you will be able to use our endpoints.

Below, you can see some quickstart code snippets and examples of a few of our endpoints you can visit!

import os
from mistralai import Mistral

api_key = os.environ["MISTRAL_API_KEY"]
model = "mistral-medium-latest"

client = Mistral(api_key=api_key)

chat_response = client.chat.complete(
    model= model,
    messages = [
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "What is the best French cheese?",
        },
    ]
)

import os
from mistralai import Mistral

api_key = os.environ["MISTRAL_API_KEY"]
model = "mistral-medium-latest"

client = Mistral(api_key=api_key)

chat_response = client.chat.complete(
    model= model,
    messages = [
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "What is the best French cheese?",
        },
    ]
)

We offer multiple services and models, from transcription to reasoning and sota document AI and OCR systems; For a full description of the models offered on the API, head on to the models page.