Mistral Le Chat API key setup
Mistral's consumer chat (chat.mistral.ai). Free / Pro / Team tiers with multipliers on messages, search, libraries, and image gen. Mistral Vibe (agentic coding) on all tiers. La Plateforme API is a separate pay-per-token product.
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 BYOK provider keys — 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)
Our verdicts on this kind of provider
Independent comparisons we keep current as pricing and free tiers shift. A guide is setup; a verdict is whether it's worth setting up.