title: "AI in abundance | Mistral AI"

Mistral AI is expanding access to its technology by introducing a free tier on its "la Plateforme" API, allowing developers to experiment with its models at no cost. The company has also dramatically reduced prices across its entire model family, with some costs dropping by as much as 80%. A new and improved enterprise-grade model, Mistral Small v24.09, has been released, delivering significant upgrades in reasoning, human alignment, and coding performance. Furthermore, powerful image understanding is now freely available through the Pixtral 12B model on the "le Chat" interface, enabling users to analyze and search visual content.