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The free API tier is designed to allow you to try and explore our API.' No number is published on that page","unit":"requests","metered_on":"request-count","source_url":"https://docs.mistral.ai/deployment/laplateforme/tier/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"the live page returns 404 today; the text quoted is from the Wayback capture of 2025-10-09T00:54:12Z, reached through the archive broker. The page states the numbers are per workspace and visible only at admin.mistral.ai/plateforme/limits, so the ceiling is behind a login"},"limits_note":"no numeric limit was read. The docs site's tier page returned 404 on 2026-10-22, so the ceiling was not read; the read broker was not retried on an alternative path.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"an account and an API key","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded; no key was available","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the free tier's existence and its scope are from the archived first-party page, because the live path 404s; the 401 gate was probed today. No number is published in either place, so the ceiling is documented as existing and not as sized.","evidence":[{"url":"https://docs.mistral.ai/deployment/laplateforme/tier/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"returned 404 with a soft-404 body ('¿Meow? Page not found.'), through the raw fetch and the read broker alike. 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Re-read it when the docs site serves a tier page again.","binding_note":"the per-workspace request and token rates bind, and the free tier's values are behind a login, so the ceiling cannot be sized before an account exists"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}