MISTRAL

Mistral Large 4 weights are on Hugging Face under a modified MIT license. What the license blocks, the vLLM command, and when self-hosting beats the API.

Mistral Large 4 is a 1T-parameter multimodal MoE with 52B active, in public preview at $0.68/$2.09 per million tokens, with open weights due end of October.

Mistral Shieldstral is a 3B Apache 2.0 multimodal moderation model that takes your policy as a plain-language question at inference and runs on one 16GB GPU.

Mistral Robostral Navigate is an 8B robotics model that navigates with only a camera and natural language commands. How it works and what the benchmarks mean.

Mistral OCR 4 and Baidu's Unlimited OCR turn document parsing into a runtime choice for agents - cost per page, layout, confidence scores and self-hosting.