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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": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.2, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 147, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1221, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "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": "2026-10-17" }, "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, Mistral Large 4 among them since 6 October, 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": [ "Labs and preview models, Large 4 among them, may train on data sent 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, `mistral-large-4` included while it is in preview, 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", "Move `zai-glm-5-2` calls to `zai-glm-5-3` before 31 October 2026. 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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", "voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602", "mistral-ocr", "mistral-vibe-cli" ], "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": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "security.txt read on 2026-10-17, Contact security@mistral.ai, Expires 2027-05-05, Policy a HackerOne submission form", "Commercial terms effective 2026-09-25 and DPA effective 2026-07-27, both re-read on 2026-10-17", "status.mistral.ai answered with a bot check on 2026-10-17" ], "score": 92 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.json", "live": { "slug": "mistral-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.mistral.ai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-28T05:40:57.042319008Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 68, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 74, "p95ms24h": 125, "samples24h": 251, "samples30d": 7965, "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": 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"2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 60, "ok": 60 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.mistral.ai", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T05:32:15.558902093Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "mistralai/client-python", "version": "v3.2.0", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-27T11:15:46.245339105Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mistralai/mistralai", "version": "3.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-27T11:15:44.679828966Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mistralai", "version": "3.5.0", "released": "2026-10-25", "seenAt": "2026-10-27T11:15:44.561958293Z" } ], 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"fingerprint": "227daf1e9929" }, { "url": "https://mistral.ai/pricing/api/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:38:47.6828724Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-28T04:38:47.6828724Z", "fingerprint": "e8c23ff9da56" }, { "url": "https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:37:42.282764419Z", "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": "2026-10-27T23:49:19.214234221Z" }, "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": "2026-10-27T23:49:19.214234221Z" }, "mistral-large-4": { "openrouterId": "mistralai/mistral-large-4-0", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": true, "input": [ "image", "text" ], "promptCaching": true, "contextTokens": 1048576, "maxOutput": 262144, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T23:49:19.214234221Z" }, "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": "2026-10-27T23:49:19.214234221Z" }, "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": "2026-10-27T23:49:19.214234221Z" } }, "github": { "repo": "mistralai/client-python", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T07:46:55.847228376Z", "stars": 774, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-25T19:52:35Z", "openIssues": 37, "openPRs": 3, "issuesOpened90d": 18, "issuesClosed90d": 2, "prsMerged90d": 22, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 39, "failure": 11, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-25T19:53:21Z" }, "advisories": [ { "ghsa": "GHSA-wx9m-wx4f-4cmg", "severity": "critical", "published": "2026-05-12T12:57:44Z" } ], "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 22, "medianDays": 5.7 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-28T05:40:57.042319008Z" } }, "answer": "Mistral AI API scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "simplismart", "name": "Simplismart", "vendor": "Verute Technologies Private Limited", "vendorUrl": "https://simplismart.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "inference", "summary": "Simplismart is an inference platform for open models. It runs 150+ models on shared pay-per-token endpoints with an OpenAI-compatible API, and handles dedicated GPU deployments, bring-your-own-cloud clusters and fine-tuning jobs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.simplismart.live", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "simplismart-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API keys made under Settings, API Keys. Each key has a unique name and an expiry chosen at creation; non-expiring keys need a request to support. Keys return 401 after midnight UTC on the expiry date and can be deleted at once. The Python SDK and CLI use a separate Playground token. Organisation roles are Admin, Member and Billing User, and workspaces scope models and deployments.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Shared endpoints are priced per 1M tokens, per image or per audio minute, such as Llama 3.1 8B at $0.13 and DeepSeek-V3 at $0.90 per 1M tokens. Dedicated GPUs run from $1.20 (T4) to $5.20 (H200) per GPU-hour. Prepaid credits at $1 each; new organisations may receive $5 of free credits.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs (llms.txt index, billing, API keys and API reference pages) or on the pricing page, checked 28 October 2026. Credits are bought by card, UPI or netbanking, or billed postpaid.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-28" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.simplismart.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.simplismart.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.simplismart.ai/openapi-specs/playground/llama-8b.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights", "speech.stt", "image.generate", "compute.endpoints", "finetune.sft", "finetune.lora", "finetune.preference", "finetune.rl" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "usage-based", "openai-compatible", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "dedicated-endpoints", "byoc", "fine-tuning" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-19", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 29.7, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1146, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1221, "categoryRank": 32, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 17, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 25, "reliability": 15, "schema": 51, "security": 35, "transparency": 31 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-28" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data.", "bestFor": "Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.", "strengths": [ "Public per-unit prices without a login, such as Llama 3.1 8B at $0.13 per 1M tokens and Whisper v3 Turbo at $0.0018 per audio minute", "API keys are named, carry an expiry date chosen at creation, return 401 after expiry and can be deleted at once", "Markdown docs and an llms.txt index, with OpenAPI 3.1 files for seven LLMs, Whisper and Flux", "Shared endpoints, dedicated GPU deployments and bring-your-own-cloud clusters sit on one account, with workspaces and organisation roles" ], "weaknesses": [ "No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages", "No status page, incident history or SLA document found; the 99.99% uptime figure is a homepage claim", "Tool calling, structured output, prompt caching and context lengths are not documented for the shared endpoints", "The terms (13 January 2023) and privacy policy cover the website and say nothing about prompt retention or training on API data", "The pricing page lists older models (Llama 3.1, DeepSeek-R1) and omits Gemma 4 31B, the model the quickstart uses" ], "agentNotes": [ "Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.", "Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.", "Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.", "Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.", "Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 29.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 17, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 25, "reliability": 15, "schema": 51, "security": 35, "transparency": 14 }, "provenanceScore": 48, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-28", "maintenance": "2026-10-28", "payments": "2026-10-28", "reliability": "2026-10-28", "schema": "2026-10-28", "security": "2026-10-28", "transparency": "2026-10-28" }, "last": "2026-10-28", "oldest": "2026-10-28", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://api.simplismart.live/chat/completions' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SIMPLISMART_API_KEY\" -d '{\"model\": \"meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Say hello.\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/simplismart" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Llama 3.1 8B (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.13, "note": "Single per-1M-token rate on the pricing page, checked 28 October 2026; input and output are not priced separately" }, { "item": "Llama 3.3 70B (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.74, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "DeepSeek-V3 (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.9, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "Whisper v3 Turbo (shared)", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.0018, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "Flux Dev (shared, 1024x1024)", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.03, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "NVIDIA H100, dedicated", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 5, "note": "Pricing page table order, checked 28 October 2026; a Simplismart article gives $4.00 per hour" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Verute Technologies Private Limited", "domain": "simplismart.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://simplismart.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://simplismart.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-28", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated 13 January 2023) and privacy policy (effective 13 January 2023) name Verute Technologies Private Limited, Indian law and an address on Residency Road, Bengaluru. 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"Simplismart vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/simplismart-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-simplismart" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 35, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "reliability", "mistral-api": 50, "name": "Reliability", "simplismart": 15, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 42, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "schema", "mistral-api": 93, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "simplismart": 51, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 74, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "ergonomics", "mistral-api": 91, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "simplismart": 17, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 31, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "security", "mistral-api": 66, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "simplismart": 35, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "payments", "mistral-api": 40, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "simplismart": 25, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 46, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "maintenance", "mistral-api": 88, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "simplismart": 42, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 49, "edge": "mistral-api", "key": "transparency", "mistral-api": 80, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "simplismart": 31, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Mistral AI API scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do llm inference.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "mistral-api": "Public OpenAPI document at docs.mistral.ai/openapi.yaml and an llms.txt with Markdown twins. Data sent to Labs and preview models, Mistral Large 4 among them since 6 October, may be used for training from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting.", "simplismart": "Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-simplismart", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-simplismart.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-simplismart.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-simplismart.min.md" }, "markdown": "Mistral AI API scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Mistral AI API: grade BB, 71.2/100, rank #147 of 1221. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mistral-api.json\n- Simplismart: grade F, 29.7/100, rank #1146 of 1221. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 497 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 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 51\n- Agent ergonomics, 91 against 17\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 42\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 80 against 31\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: Labs and preview models, Large 4 among them, may train on data sent from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting\n\n### Simplismart (F)\n\nGood for: Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.\n\nWatch for: No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Mistral AI API | Simplismart | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 15 | Mistral AI API +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 51 | Mistral AI API +42 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 91 | 17 | Mistral AI API +74 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 35 | Mistral AI API +31 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 25 | Mistral AI API +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 88 | 42 | Mistral AI API +46 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 31 | Mistral AI API +49 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.2 · BB** | **29.7 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Mistral AI API | Simplismart |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Mistral AI | Verute Technologies Private Limited |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.mistral.ai/v1` | `https://api.simplismart.live` |\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 hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-19 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-25 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-03 | |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\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, Mistral Large 4 among them since 6 October, may be used for training from 2026-09-25, whatever the opt-out or zero-retention setting.\n\n**Simplismart.** Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Mistral AI API\n\n1. Stay off `labs-*` and preview models, `mistral-large-4` included while it is in preview, 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. Move `zai-glm-5-2` calls to `zai-glm-5-3` before 31 October 2026. The price is the same\n5. Set `tool_choice` to any to force a tool call, and `strict` on the JSON schema for structured output\n\n### Simplismart\n\n1. Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.\n2. Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.\n3. Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.\n4. Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.\n5. Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Mistral AI API or Simplismart?\n\nMistral AI API scores 71.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Mistral AI API and Simplismart need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Mistral AI API and Simplismart without installing anything?\n\nYes. Mistral AI API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mistral.ai/v1 and Simplismart at https://api.simplismart.live.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-simplismart.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-simplismart.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"mistral-api\", \"b\": \"simplismart\"}`. 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