{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "mistral-api", "name": "Mistral AI API", "vendor": "Mistral AI", "vendorUrl": "https://mistral.ai", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Mistral's API for its open-weight and proprietary models, with EU and US regional endpoints.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mistral-api.json", "repo": "https://github.com/mistralai/client-python", "license": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.mistral.ai/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mistralai" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mistralai/mistralai" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer key. Regional EU and US endpoints are opt-in.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free Experiment tier with no card, but a phone number, and its data may be used for training. Cached input 10% of the input price, batch half price, regional endpoints 1.1x. Also resells Z.ai GLM 5.3 at $1.40/$4.40 (https://mistral.ai/pricing/api/).", "priceSummary": "from $0.10 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 769, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.mistral.ai", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://docs.mistral.ai/admin/user-management-finops/tier", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.mistral.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "eu", "open-weights", "free-tier", "openapi", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.2, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 135, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 91, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 40, "reliability": 50, "schema": 93, "security": 66, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Public OpenAPI document at docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml and an llms.txt with Markdown twins. Data sent to Labs and preview models may be used for training from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting.", "bestFor": "Teams that need EU processing, open-weight models they can later run themselves, or an API an agent can read from an OpenAPI file.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI document at docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml and an llms.txt with Markdown twins", "Minimum 6 months' notice before a GA model retires, and retired ids return 404", "Workspace-scoped API keys with expiry dates, and service accounts bound to workspace roles", "Opt-in EU and US regional endpoints, at 1.1x", "Free Experiment tier with no card, and Batch at half price" ], "weaknesses": [ "Data sent to Labs and preview models may be used for training from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting", "The terms don't say whether the paid API trains by default", "Labs, preview and third-party models get only 1 month's notice", "Rate-limit numbers are only in the console, and no SLA found", "17 Completion, Conversations and Batch API incidents on the status page in August 2026, and an elevated error rate for 2 hours 40 minutes on 29 September" ], "agentNotes": [ "Stay off `labs-*` and preview models for anything confidential", "Use the EU endpoint when data has to stay in Europe and budget the 10% uplift", "Treat a 404 on a model id as retirement and read the lifecycle page for the replacement", "Set `tool_choice` to any to force a tool call, and `strict` on the JSON schema for structured output", "Read docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml for the request shapes instead of guessing from OpenAI's" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 71.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 91, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 40, "reliability": 50, "schema": 93, "security": 66, "transparency": 68 }, "provenanceScore": 91 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install mistralai # or: npm i @mistralai/mistralai", "http": "curl https://api.mistral.ai/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MISTRAL_API_KEY\" -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"mistral-medium-3-5\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"bonjour\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/mistral-api" }, "sameCompany": [ "mistral-embeddings", "mistral-moderation", "mistral-voxtral-transcribe", "mistral-ocr" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Mistral AI (RCS Paris 952 418 325)", "domain": "mistral.ai", "domainRegistered": "2019-05-15", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/commercial-terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.mistral.ai", "changelog": "https://docs.mistral.ai/resources/changelogs", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-26", "score": 91 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.json", "live": { "slug": "mistral-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.mistral.ai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T01:37:59.231676378Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 87, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 73, "p95ms24h": 138, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 3407, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-27", "probes": 132, "ok": 132 }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "probes": 285, "ok": 285 }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.mistral.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:49.785596919Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "mistralai/client-python", "version": "v3.2.0", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:06:24.376049947Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mistralai/mistralai", "version": "2.7.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:06:23.444713768Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mistralai", "version": "3.2.0", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:06:23.328855455Z" } ], "githubStars": 773, "npmWeekly": 8338907, "pypiWeekly": 3268403, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://mistral.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-05-05T23:59:59.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:43.017059181Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.mistral.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:02:18.776213403Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "mistral.ai", "registered": "2019-05-15", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/mistral.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:59.683466691Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.mistral.ai/resources/changelogs", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:37:46.986439Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:05:15.998003428Z", "fingerprint": "f37008aff154" }, { "url": "https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/commercial-terms-of-service", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:41:12.365475335Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "227daf1e9929" }, { "url": "https://mistral.ai/pricing/api/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:42:07.026340776Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:07:31.904425325Z", "fingerprint": "a7cad481f8de" }, { "url": "https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:41:14.839037284Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e74211012ef6" } ], "models": { "ministral-3b-2512": { "openrouterId": "mistralai/ministral-3b-2512", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": false, "input": [ "image", "text" ], "promptCaching": true, "contextTokens": 131072, "maxOutput": 104857, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T22:59:28.49657734Z" }, "mistral-large-2512": { "openrouterId": "mistralai/mistral-large-2512", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": false, "input": [ "file", "image", "text" ], "promptCaching": true, "contextTokens": 262144, "maxOutput": 209715, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T22:59:28.49657734Z" }, "mistral-medium-3-5": { "openrouterId": "mistralai/mistral-medium-3-5", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": true, "input": [ "file", "image", "text" ], "promptCaching": false, "contextTokens": 262144, "maxOutput": 209715, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T22:59:28.49657734Z" }, "mistral-small-2603": { "openrouterId": "mistralai/mistral-small-2603", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": true, "input": [ "image", "text" ], "promptCaching": true, "contextTokens": 262144, "maxOutput": 209715, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T22:59:28.49657734Z" } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T01:37:59.231676378Z" } }, "answer": "Mistral AI API scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against SiliconFlow's 46.7 (D), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "siliconflow", "name": "SiliconFlow", "vendor": "SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.siliconflow.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "SiliconFlow is a hosted inference API for open-weight models, covering chat, vision, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech. It answers OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style calls at api.siliconflow.com with a Bearer key.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/siliconflow.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the SiliconFlow Terms of Use", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.siliconflow.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve Bearer key from the console at https://cloud.siliconflow.com/account/ak after a browser sign-up with a Google or GitHub account. The Anthropic-style `/messages` route also takes the key in `x-api-key`. No scopes, expiry or per-key limits are documented, and rate limits apply to the account, not the key. The error page says some models answer 403 until real-name authentication is done.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay per token, image, video or byte of speech text, with $1 in free credits for a new account. Whether a card is needed to claim the credit was not established. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash costs $0.15 in, $0.003 cached and $0.60 out per 1M tokens. The FAQ says monthly spending limits can be set in the dashboard (https://www.siliconflow.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "from $0.15 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/userguide/quickstart", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/cn/userguide/rate-limits/rate-limit-and-upgradation", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/cn/api-reference/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights", "embed.text", "rerank", "image.generate", "video.generate", "speech.tts", "speech.stt" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "usage-based", "free-credit", "openapi", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "singapore" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 848, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 47, "payments": 35, "reliability": 33, "schema": 65, "security": 39, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Per-token prices for every listed model are public, and one key reaches chat, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech through OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style routes. No status page, SLA, security page or official SDK was found, release notes stop at 11 June 2026, and several model removals are dated the same day as their notice.", "bestFor": "Agents that want recent open-weight chat models, plus image, video and speech, behind one OpenAI-style key at low per-token prices, and can live without a status page or SLA.", "strengths": [ "Per-token, per-image and per-video prices are public for every listed model, such as DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at $0.15 in and $0.60 out per 1M tokens", "One Bearer key reaches 22 operations in a public OpenAPI 3.0 file, with OpenAI-style `/chat/completions` and Anthropic-style `/messages`", "`llms.txt` and a Markdown copy of every docs page, in English and Chinese", "Rate limits are published by spend tier, from 1,000 requests and 40,000 tokens a minute at L0 to 10,000 and 2,000,000 at L5", "The terms say SiliconFlow will not access Interaction Data, has no obligation to store it, and uses it only to supply the service" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history or SLA was found, and the terms disclaim any uptime or availability commitment", "Release notes stop at 11 June 2026. Six notices from December 2025 to June 2026 give a removal date equal to the notice date", "The Terms of Use of 9 September 2026 forbid use for any commercial purposes, scraping tools and benchmarking. This matters before any probe is run", "The OpenAPI model list and the function calling guide name models already removed, and omit every model added since July 2026", "No security.txt, disclosure policy, certification, DPA or sub-processor list was found, and no official SDK is published" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set the OpenAI client's base URL to `https://api.siliconflow.com/v1`, or the Anthropic client's to `https://api.siliconflow.com/`, and send the key as a Bearer token", "Take model ids from the model pages or `GET /v1/models`, not from the OpenAPI enum or the function calling guide, which list removed models", "Check the `model` field of each response. On 11 June 2026 traffic for GLM-5 and Kimi-K2.5 was routed to successor models", "Use `response_format` of `json_object` only where the model page says JSON Mode is supported, and keep `max_tokens` about 10,000 below the context length", "Set the Claude Code environment variables by hand. The automated route pipes a script from an Amazon S3 bucket into bash" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 47, "payments": 35, "reliability": 33, "schema": 65, "security": 39, "transparency": 34 }, "provenanceScore": 68 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install --upgrade openai", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://api.siliconflow.com/v1/chat/completions \\\n --header 'authorization: Bearer $SILICONFLOW_API_KEY' \\\n --header 'content-type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"model\":\"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello\"}],\"max_tokens\":128}'", "claudeCode": "export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=\"https://api.siliconflow.com/\"\nexport ANTHROPIC_MODEL=\"your-preferred-model\"\nexport ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=\"sk-your-api-key-here\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/siliconflow" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Z-Image-Turbo, one image", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.005 }, { "item": "FLUX.1-dev, one image", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.014 }, { "item": "FLUX 1.1 [pro], one image", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.04 }, { "item": "Wan2.2-T2V-A14B, one video", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.29, "note": "Priced per video generated" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd.", "domain": "siliconflow.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-02-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/release-notes/overview", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use, updated 9 September 2026, name SILICONFLOW LABS PTE. LTD., apply Singapore law and set SIAC arbitration in Singapore. They govern the platform in its web, API and mobile versions, and no separate API agreement was found.", "The Privacy Policy, updated 9 September 2026, names the same entity and cites Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act 2012. It keeps square brackets around several values, such as [Stripe] and [Google and GitHub].", "No status page is linked from the site, the docs index or the pages read.", "https://www.siliconflow.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404.", "RDAP for siliconflow.com gives a registration date of 2019-02-14.", "The API answers at api.siliconflow.com, the docs at docs.siliconflow.com and the console at cloud.siliconflow.com. The terms point users in mainland China to siliconflow.cn.", "No SLA, DPA or sub-processor list was found." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.json", "live": { "slug": "siliconflow", "probe": { "target": "https://api.siliconflow.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T01:38:07.305577242Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 283, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 271, "p95ms24h": 377, "samples24h": 102, "samples30d": 102, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/release-notes/overview", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:22.595479943Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "020d6d5c5cb2" }, { "url": "https://www.siliconflow.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:54:15.050158864Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "597402093b57" }, { "url": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:18.377821725Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d7eb9964dc83" }, { "url": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:20.660352373Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "299aa0be9f28" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T01:38:07.305577242Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Mistral AI", "b": "SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.mistral.ai/v1", "b": "https://api.siliconflow.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs)", "b": "Proprietary service under the SiliconFlow Terms of Use", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-30", "b": "2026-09-14", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-25", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-03", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "769 stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "4/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Mistral AI API scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against SiliconFlow's 46.7 (D), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Mistral AI API or SiliconFlow?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Mistral AI API and SiliconFlow need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Mistral AI API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mistral.ai/v1 and SiliconFlow at https://api.siliconflow.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Mistral AI API and SiliconFlow without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 50 against 33", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 65", "Agent ergonomics, 91 against 60", "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 39", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 47", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 51" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "Teams that need EU processing, open-weight models they can later run themselves, or an API an agent can read from an OpenAPI file.", "slug": "mistral-api", "watchFor": "Data sent to Labs and preview models may be used for training from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that want recent open-weight chat models, plus image, 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mistral-api.json\n- SiliconFlow: grade D, 46.7/100, rank #848 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/siliconflow.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 136 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Mistral AI API (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams that need EU processing, open-weight models they can later run themselves, or an API an agent can read from an OpenAPI file.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 50 against 33\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 65\n- Agent ergonomics, 91 against 60\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 39\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 47\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 51\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: Data sent to Labs and preview models may be used for training from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting\n\n### SiliconFlow (D)\n\nGood for: Agents that want recent open-weight chat models, plus image, video and speech, behind one OpenAI-style key at low per-token prices, and can live without a status page or SLA.\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or SLA was found, and the terms disclaim any uptime or availability commitment\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Mistral AI API | SiliconFlow | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 33 | Mistral AI API +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 65 | Mistral AI API +28 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 60 | Mistral AI API +31 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 39 | Mistral AI API +27 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | Mistral AI API +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 88 | 47 | Mistral AI API +41 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 51 | Mistral AI API +29 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.2 · BB** | **46.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Mistral AI API | SiliconFlow |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Mistral AI | SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.mistral.ai/v1` | `https://api.siliconflow.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | Proprietary service under the SiliconFlow Terms of Use |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-14 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-25 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-03 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 769 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Mistral AI API.** Public OpenAPI document at docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml and an llms.txt with Markdown twins. Data sent to Labs and preview models may be used for training from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting.\n\n**SiliconFlow.** Per-token prices for every listed model are public, and one key reaches chat, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech through OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style routes. No status page, SLA, security page or official SDK was found, release notes stop at 11 June 2026, and several model removals are dated the same day as their notice.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Mistral AI API\n\n1. Stay off `labs-*` and preview models for anything confidential\n2. Use the EU endpoint when data has to stay in Europe and budget the 10% uplift\n3. Treat a 404 on a model id as retirement and read the lifecycle page for the replacement\n4. Set `tool_choice` to any to force a tool call, and `strict` on the JSON schema for structured output\n5. Read docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml for the request shapes instead of guessing from OpenAI's\n\n### SiliconFlow\n\n1. Set the OpenAI client's base URL to `https://api.siliconflow.com/v1`, or the Anthropic client's to `https://api.siliconflow.com/`, and send the key as a Bearer token\n2. Take model ids from the model pages or `GET /v1/models`, not from the OpenAPI enum or the function calling guide, which list removed models\n3. Check the `model` field of each response. On 11 June 2026 traffic for GLM-5 and Kimi-K2.5 was routed to successor models\n4. Use `response_format` of `json_object` only where the model page says JSON Mode is supported, and keep `max_tokens` about 10,000 below the context length\n5. Set the Claude Code environment variables by hand. The automated route pipes a script from an Amazon S3 bucket into bash\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Mistral AI API or SiliconFlow?\n\nMistral AI API scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against SiliconFlow's 46.7 (D), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Mistral AI API and SiliconFlow need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Mistral AI API and SiliconFlow without installing anything?\n\nYes. Mistral AI API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mistral.ai/v1 and SiliconFlow at https://api.siliconflow.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-siliconflow.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-siliconflow.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"mistral-api\", \"b\": \"siliconflow\"}`. 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