Mistral Embed
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-embed
Mistral AI's hosted embedding API — mistral-embed; available via Mistral La Plateforme and Azure AI.
Active · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 20 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Mistral embedding API vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Section
- Embedding & reranker services
- Latest release
- v3.5.0 (2026-10-25) — mistralai (PyPI) registry fix
- License
- proprietary; SDK Apache-2.0 repo fix
- Pricing
- mistral-embed $0.10 per 1M tokens; Codestral Embed $0.15 per 1M tokens; batch API 50% cheaper vendor fix
- Funding
- Mistral AI raised $640M Series B 2024-06 ($6B valuation; General Catalyst led); ~$1.07B total. vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- model-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial repo fix
- SDK languages
- python, rest, typescript vendor fix
- Compliance
- iso27001, iso27701, soc2-type2 vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 3.96 (12-mo avg 7.99) · 11 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
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Claims & capabilities
Mistral total funding ~€1.5B; valued ~€5.8B (2024).
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST API (/v1/embeddings, /v1/batch), Python SDK, TypeScript SDK
- Backend storage
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- Deployment
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- Embedding model
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- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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Sources (19 cited facts, 1 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Mistral embedding API vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Mistral AI's hosted embedding API — mistral-embed; available via Mistral La Plateforme a… vendor
- Claims / benefits Mistral total funding ~€1.5B; valued ~€5.8B (2024). vendor
- Created 2024 vendor
- Latest release v3.5.0 (2026-10-25) — mistralai (PyPI) registry
- License proprietary; SDK Apache-2.0 repo
- GitHub mistralai/client-python — ~775 stars, last commit 2026-10 (official Python SDK) repo
- Funding Mistral AI raised $640M Series B 2024-06 ($6B valuation; General Catalyst led); ~$1.07B … vendor
- Pricing mistral-embed $0.10 per 1M tokens; Codestral Embed $0.15 per 1M tokens; batch API 50% ch… vendor
- HQ Paris, France. vendor
- Founders / pedigree Arthur Mensch (CEO; ex-DeepMind), Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix (both ex-Meta FAIR)… vendor
- API surface REST API (/v1/embeddings, /v1/batch), Python SDK, TypeScript SDK vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup model-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":24.2,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":7.99,"openrank_current":3.96,"partici… third-party
- compliance-certifications iso27001,iso27701,soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages python,rest,typescript vendor
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References (1)
- Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family depends on at runtime — available via Mistral La Plateforme and Azure AI.
Referenced by (7)
- Chroma integrates with — Chroma's docs have a Mistral Embed integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — LangChain docs have a MistralAI embeddings integration page (MistralAIEmbeddings). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langflow integrates with — Langflow components bundle: MistralAI embeddings component. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — LlamaIndex has an official embeddings integration package llama-index-embeddings-mistralai in its repo. (verified 2026-10-29)
- n8n (AI agent flows) integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Embeddings Mistral Cloud node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Phidata (now Agno) integrates with — Agno ships a mistral embedder (agno.knowledge.embedder.mistral). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Mistral Embed integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)