Quickstart

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Getting started with Mistral AI API

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 chat endpoint:

python
javascript
curl

from mistralai.client import MistralClient
from mistralai.models.chat_completion import ChatMessage

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

client = MistralClient(api_key=api_key)

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

print(chat_response.choices[0].message.content)

import MistralClient from '@mistralai/mistralai';

const apiKey = process.env.MISTRAL_API_KEY;

const client = new MistralClient(apiKey);

const chatResponse = await client.chat({
  model: 'mistral-large-latest',
  messages: [{role: 'user', content: 'What is the best French cheese?'}],
});

console.log('Chat:', chatResponse.choices[0].message.content);

curl --location "https://api.mistral.ai/v1/chat/completions" \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --header 'Accept: application/json' \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer $MISTRAL_API_KEY" \
     --data '{
    "model": "mistral-large-latest",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Who is the most renowned French painter?"}]
  }'

To generate text embeddings using Mistral AI's embeddings API, we can make a request to the API endpoint and specify the embedding model mistral-embed, along with providing a list of input texts. The API will then return the corresponding embeddings as numerical vectors, which can be used for further analysis or processing in NLP applications.

python
javascript
curl

from mistralai.client import MistralClient

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

client = MistralClient(api_key=api_key)

embeddings_response = client.embeddings(
    model=model,
    input=["Embed this sentence.", "As well as this one."]
)

print(embeddings_response)

import MistralClient from '@mistralai/mistralai';

const apiKey = process.env.MISTRAL_API_KEY;

const client = new MistralClient(apiKey);

const embeddingsResponse = await client.embeddings({
  model: 'mistral-embed',
  input: ["Embed this sentence.", "As well as this one."],
});

console.log(embeddingsResponse);

curl --location "https://api.mistral.ai/v1/embeddings" \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --header 'Accept: application/json' \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer $MISTRAL_API_KEY" \
     --data '{
    "model": "mistral-embed",
    "input": ["Embed this sentence.", "As well as this one."]
  }'

For a full description of the models offered on the API, head on to the model documentation.

Account setup

To get started, create a Mistral account or sign in at console.mistral.ai.
Then, navigate to "Workspace" and "Billing" to add your payment information and activate payments on your account.
After that, go to the "API keys" page and make a new API key by clicking "Create new key". Make sure to copy the API key, save it safely, and do not share it with anyone.

Getting started with Mistral AI API​

Account setup​

Getting started with Mistral AI API

Account setup