🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-09-17 · mistral.ai · back to the whole list
Mistral’s Free plan — API keys with $10 a month of included usage, shared by the API, Studio and the Vibe coding CLI, no card
The page this row is verified against names no free model, so the column stays empty; callable ids, where the row has them, are under Connect.
The Free card on mistral.ai/pricing lists “Limited coding sessions”, “Test Mistral models in Studio” and “$10 /mo in API credits”, where Pro’s card says $30. The docs say where the allowance goes: “Mistral plans are global: the same plan applies across Vibe, Studio, and API usage”, “Free mode is the default state for new accounts”, and “Each Mistral plan includes monthly usage that is shared across Studio, the API, and Vibe Code. Usage consumes this monthly allowance first” — past it, usage “can stop until the next billing period” unless pay-as-you-go is switched on. The quickstart asks for nothing more: “Free mode: API access is enabled by default with no credit card required.” What $10 buys is on the same page: “For example, Mistral Large costs $0.5 /M tokens in and $1.5 /M tokens out.” Free mode also has the lowest rate limits — requests per second, tokens per minute and tokens per month, shown only inside the account — and API calls may be used to improve Mistral’s services unless the Admin panel’s Anonymous improvement data toggle is off.
https://api.mistral.ai/v1MISTRAL_API_KEY — get one at https://console.mistral.ai/api-keys$10 /mo in API credits, Test Mistral models in Studio2026-08-17 — Free models changed: dropped mistral-medium2026-07-19 — Added to the list: Free experiment tier on La PlateformeGenerated from registry.yaml on 2026-09-18 and re-verified twice a week; the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery are at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.