🇫🇷France · Proprietary · 4 models

Mistral Ai

Mistral AI is a Paris-based, EU-native model creator positioned as Europe's sovereignty-focused answer to US and Chinese labs, with GDPR-by-default posture, SOC2/ISO27001 certification, and a signed EU GPAI Code of Practice commitment. However, its 'sovereign' story is complicated by heavy reliance on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for training/inference (including a Feb 2025 US-region expansion), a pending CNIL complaint over opt-out UX, and a licensing model that has drifted from fully open toward more proprietary/restrictive terms over time. Regulated EU customers get real jurisdictional advantages over US labs, but should verify subprocessor routing and licence terms per model.

Stav’s assessment

Overall risk · low

Stav’s assessment

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Models in the catalogue (3)

Mistral Ai · mistral-small

mistral-small-2603

Open-weights 119B MoE model from Mistral AI (128 experts, 4 active, 6.5B active per token) unifying instruct, opt-in reasoning, vision, and coding in a single 262K-context checkpoint with interactive-class latency.

€0.13/€0.52/M in·out

Mistral Ai · mistral-large

mistral-large-2512

Mistral AI's open-weight flagship: a 675B-parameter (41B active) Granular MoE model with native vision input, function calling, and a 262,144-token context window, built for long-document and multimodal workflows.

€0.43/€1.29/M in·out

Mistral Ai · codestral

codestral-2508

Mistral AI's closed-weight, 256K-context code specialist for fill-in-the-middle completion, code correction, and test generation.

€0.26/€0.78/M in·out

Safeguards in place

compliance
Mistral signed the EU's voluntary GPAI Code of Practice in 2025, an early-adopter signal aligned with Article 53 transparency and copyright obligations under the AI Act.
security
Mistral holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001/27701 certifications, published via its own Trust Center and Help Center.
transparency
Mistral operates a dedicated Legal Center documenting AI Act compliance materials per model, plus a public Trust Center for security documentation requests.
community
Continues to release genuinely open-weight models under Apache 2.0 (e.g. Mistral Large 3, Mistral Small, Mistral Nemo), supporting self-hosted deployment for customers needing full data control.
stability
Backed by a large strategic investment and board presence from ASML, Europe's most valuable tech company, alongside continued enterprise traction (HSBC, CMA CGM, European Patent Office) and a French national civil-service deployment.

Published safeguards & certifications