I simply registered for the free tier with a temporary e-mail address and it works very well for me in English and German. Without registering you can try out few requests.


Le Chat: https://chat.mistral.ai/chat

From Mistral AI’s About-page:

We are Mistral AI, a pioneering French artificial intelligence startup founded in April 2023 by three visionary researchers: Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix.

From Wikipedia:

On February 6, 2025, Mistral AI released its AI assistant, Le Chat, on iOS and Android, making its language models accessible on mobile devices.

Le Chat offers features including web search, image generation, and real-time updates.

Mistral AI also introduced a Pro subscription tier, priced at $14.99 per month, which provides access to more advanced models, unlimited messaging, and web browsing.

From Legal, Security and Data privacy subpage:

When using Mistral AI’s API, where is my data stored?
Mistral AI’s servers are located in Europe (Sweden).

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    It was a really nice discovery, I’ve quitted chatGPT and using it as main AI reference

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    They always seem a bit last generation to me, especially if you compare it with the claude models. That being said, I hope they catch up and am going to use them for most of the basic stuff I do with AI.

    I hope Europe invest heavily into them to keep them competitive

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    What’s also very nice for the developers among us: they also have “Codestral” which is an AI specifically for coding. You can generate an API key (not sure of it’s in the free tier) and integrate it in VS Code with the “continue” extension. Works surprisingly well!

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      Thanks a tons for the information, I was not aware of this and used Le Chat few times for my coding needs (with no IDE integration, but worked well).

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    8 days ago

    I’ve deleted my OpenAI account today and moved there. It’s pretty impressive so far and it doesn’t even require you to sign in. I had almost forgotten that there are good and free services that don’t try to track you halfway across the internet in exchange.

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    I’ll give this one a spin. It’s already pretty quick (quicker than chatgpt) with the responses :)