the provider catalog

Mistral AI

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Frontier models from Paris: a European home for workflows that must stay under European law, with open-weight releases alongside the API. One provider/model line moves a workflow here or away again: the same file runs on every provider the catalog names, and swapping is a one-word diff. Machines read the catalog; the binary answers nika catalog.

2pinned modelsaliases pin exact upstream ids
cloudfamilybring your own key; it rides an env var and stays yours
MISTRAL_API_KEYthe key rides herean env var, never a config file
openai-chatwire dialectthe adapter speaks it

the wire

cloud · bring your own key; it rides an env var and stays yours

A workflow names this provider in the model line (model: mistral/mistral-large-latest), and the engine speaks openai-chat on the wire. The key rides MISTRAL_API_KEY in the environment, never a config file, never the workflow.

default: mistral-large-latest
cheap: mistral-small-latest
dialect: openai-chat
tags: code · european · frontier · function-calling · open-source · streaming · structured-output

the models

2 pins

Aliases are what the file may write; the engine pins each one to an exact upstream id, so a run stays reproducible after a vendor rotates names.

largemistral-large-latestctx 128k · vision · json:schema$0.5/M in · $1.5/M out
smallmistral-small-latestctx 32k · vision · json:schema$0.15/M in · $0.6/M out

prices are the ENGINE's, not ours: the audit's pricing snapshot (models.dev · pinned 2026-07-07): the same table nika check prices your ceiling with.

in the released catalog

2 rooms

The wire models this provider serves in the released binary's catalog · each one is a room with its seats, exact prices and measured energy.

mistral-large-latestas large
mistral-small-latestas small

the whole register: /catalog/models · what the released binary knows, vendored at the engine pin.

in a real file

a complete workflow · shown whole

draftinfer

translateinfer

mistral.nika.yaml

1nika: v12workflow:3  id: bilingual-release-note4  description: "drafted in French, shipped in English — large drafts, small translates"56tasks:7  draft:8    ◇infer:9      model: mistral/mistral-large-latest10      max_tokens: 12011      prompt: |12        Rédige en une phrase la note de version : les traces13        sont désormais signées et rejouables.1415  translate:16    with:17      draft: ${{ tasks.draft.output }}18    ◇infer:19      model: mistral/mistral-small-latest20      max_tokens: 12021      prompt: |22        Translate to plain English: ${{ with.draft }}2324outputs:25  note: ${{ tasks.translate.output }}26

check-green against the released engine · 2 tasks · 2 waves · worst-case ceiling $0.0003 · the drift gate re-proves this copy on every test run · open it in the playground →

get set up

keys at console.mistral.ai

1Create a key in the console (API Keys).
2The key rides the environment, never the file export MISTRAL_API_KEY=…

Pick it for when European jurisdiction is a requirement, not a preference. Mistral AI · Paris, France. Then prove the seat: nika doctor names every provider this binary can reach.

swap it

10 more cloud seats

Moving off Mistral AI is editing one line. The rest of the file (tasks, permits, outputs, the trace) does not change. The register orders the catalog local first; beyond it the engine embeds 21 more OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

model: mistral/mistral-large-latest model: ollama/qwen3.5:4bthe whole migration · nothing else moves

cross-references

the words that meet it

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where it lives

Try it in the playground, or install and go local first. Read the spec →