Mistral API Cost Calculator
Estimate Mistral Large, Medium and Small API costs.
With the default inputs, $0.00125 per request — ~$37.50/month at 1,000 requests/day. Enter your own numbers below to recompute instantly; the full step-by-step math is shown under the worked example.
Results update automatically as you type.
- Input cost
- $0.000500
- Output cost
- $0.000750
- Per request
- $0.00125
- Per day
- $1.25
- Per month
- $37.50
Estimate the cost of Mistral's API across the Large, Medium, Small and Devstral models. Enter tokens and volume to see per-request and monthly cost.
How this is calculated
Cost per request = (input tokens ÷ 1,000,000 × input price) + (output tokens ÷ 1,000,000 × output price) for your chosen Mistral model, from our daily-refreshed pricing. Monthly cost scales the per-request figure by requests per day × 30.
Is this a good result? What to do next
Match the tier to the task: Small and Ministral are cheap for high-volume work, Medium is balanced, Large handles the hardest tasks, and Devstral targets coding. Over-provisioning to Large for simple jobs is the usual source of an inflated bill.
Typical planning ranges
- Mistral Small / Ministral
- budget, high-volume
- Mistral Medium
- balanced mid-tier
- Mistral Large
- premium / hardest tasks
Ranges are typical planning figures to sanity-check your result, not authoritative benchmarks. Your numbers will vary with use case, volume, and vendor.
How to improve this number
- Use Small/Ministral for routine, structured tasks.
- Reserve Large for genuinely hard prompts.
- Trim output and batch non-real-time jobs.
Common mistakes
- Defaulting to Large when Small or Medium suffices.
- Ignoring that output is priced above input.
When to use a different approach
To compare Mistral against GPT, Claude and Gemini, use the model cost comparison.
Worked example (defaults)
With the default inputs above, here is the result:
- Input cost
- $0.000500
- Output cost
- $0.000750
- Per request
- $0.00125
- Per day
- $1.25
- Per month
- $37.50
- input: 1,000 / 1e6 x $0.5/M = $0.000500
- output: 500 / 1e6 x $1.5/M = $0.000750
- monthly = $0.00125 x 1,000 x 30 days
Sources & references
Frequently asked questions
Which Mistral model should I use?+
Small and Ministral for cheap high-volume tasks, Medium for balanced work, Large for the hardest tasks, and Devstral for coding.
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