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# Mistral AI

> Use Mistral Large, Mistral Medium, and Codestral via the Mistral AI API. Strong coding and European data residency options.

Mistral AI provides high-quality models with European data residency. Codestral is particularly well-suited for code generation tasks.

## Supported Models

| Model          | ID                      | Context | Tools | Notes           |
| -------------- | ----------------------- | ------- | ----- | --------------- |
| Mistral Large  | `mistral-large-latest`  | 128K    | Yes   | Best capability |
| Mistral Medium | `mistral-medium-latest` | 32K     | Yes   | Balanced        |
| Codestral      | `codestral-latest`      | 32K     | Yes   | Code-optimized  |
| Mistral Small  | `mistral-small-latest`  | 32K     | Yes   | Cost-efficient  |

## Setup

<Steps>
  <Step title="Get an API key">
    Sign up at [console.mistral.ai](https://console.mistral.ai).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set the environment variable">
    ```bash theme={null}
    export MISTRAL_API_KEY=...
    ```
  </Step>

  <Step title="Verify">
    ```bash theme={null}
    profclaw doctor --provider mistral
    ```
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Environment Variables

<ParamField path="MISTRAL_API_KEY" type="string" required>
  Your Mistral AI API key.
</ParamField>

## Configuration Example

<Tabs>
  <Tab title=".env">
    ```bash theme={null}
    MISTRAL_API_KEY=...
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="settings.yml">
    ```yaml theme={null}
    providers:
      mistral:
        api_key: "${MISTRAL_API_KEY}"
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Model Aliases

| Alias            | Model                   |
| ---------------- | ----------------------- |
| `mistral`        | mistral-large-latest    |
| `mistral-medium` | mistral-medium-latest   |
| `codestral`      | codestral-latest        |
| `mistral-local`  | mistral:7b (via Ollama) |

## Usage Examples

<CodeGroup>
  ```bash CLI theme={null}
  profclaw chat --model mistral "Review this API design"
  profclaw chat --model codestral "Generate unit tests for this function"
  ```

  ```typescript SDK theme={null}
  import { chat } from 'profclaw';

  const code = await chat("Write a binary search in TypeScript", {
    model: "codestral",
    temperature: 0.1,
  });
  ```
</CodeGroup>

## Notes

* API endpoint: `https://api.mistral.ai/v1` (OpenAI-compatible)
* Mistral offers EU data residency - useful for GDPR-sensitive workloads.
* `codestral-latest` is optimized for code completion and generation.
* The local `mistral-local` alias runs via Ollama at no API cost.

## Related

* [AI Providers Overview](/ai-providers/overview) - Compare all 37 supported providers
* [Ollama](/ai-providers/ollama) - Run Mistral models locally at no API cost
* [Cohere](/ai-providers/cohere) - Another European-headquartered provider option
* [profclaw provider](/cli/provider) - Add and test providers from the CLI