Mistral Le Chat API key setup
Mistral's consumer chat product (chat.mistral.ai). Three subscription tiers — Free, Pro ($14.99/mo), and Team ($24.99/user/mo) — with feature multipliers on messages, web searches, libraries, and image generation. Coding via Mistral Vibe (agentic coding in the terminal) is included in all tiers, with expanded capacity on Pro and above. The Mistral API (La Plateforme, console.mistral.ai) is a separate pay-per-token product; it does not have consumer subscription plans.
Get your key
- Open the Mistral Le Chat API keys page: console.mistral.ai/api-keys
- Create an account and generate an API key.
- Paste it into the Dracon key manager — stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM), used browser-direct, works in every Dracon tool.
Free tier
Yes. Mistral Le Chat Free: base-tier allowances on messages, web searches, libraries, and image generation, all subject to fair use. Includes Mistral Vibe (agentic coding) at the base level, with Devstral (Mistral's open-source coding model) as the default. Check mistral.ai/pricing for the current specifics — the published numbers are subject to fair use.
Rate limits: Le Chat (consumer): messages, web searches, libraries, and image generation scale by tier (Free = base; Pro = up to 6x base messages, 5x base web searches, 15GB libraries, 40x base image generation; Team = Pro per user + admin + domain verification). La Plateforme (API): pay-per-token, separate from these tiers.
Connection details
- Base URL
https://api.mistral.ai/v1- API shape
- OpenAI-compatible
- Env var
MISTRAL_API_KEY- Models
- mistral-large-latest, mistral-medium-latest, mistral-small-latest
- Model lineup
- Mistral (Large family), Mistral (Medium family), Mistral (Small family), Mistral Vibe (agentic coding)