Mistral API
Mistral API pricing and API key: one key, one balance
Mistral AI's models and its Voxtral text-to-speech, among more than 100 models: one account, one key, one balance, with no Mistral account to open. Top up with mobile money from 1,000 F CFA. As of November 3, 2026, the Mistral API costs from 110 F CFA (Mistral Small 4) to 995 F CFA (Mistral Large 4) per 1M input tokens on Tchavi.
4
Mistral AI models on Tchavi
From
110 F CFA
/ 1M input tokens
more than 100 models
1 key · 1 balance
No Mistral AI account to open
Mistral API pricing per model
Every Mistral AI model available on Tchavi, with its pay-as-you-go price.
| Model | Type | Input (1M tokens) | Output (1M tokens) | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mistral Large 4mistral-large-4 | Text | 995 F CFA | 3,058 F CFA | 1M |
Mistral Large 3mistral-large-latest | Text | 330 F CFA | 990 F CFA | 262.1K |
Mistral Small 4mistral-small-latest | Text | 110 F CFA | 433 F CFA | 262.1K |
Voxtral 3 TTSvoxtral-tts-3 | Audio | 9.67 F CFA / 1,000 characters | — | |
Prices as of November 3, 2026. Amounts are shown in your selected currency; you are billed in credits (1 credit ≈ 0.33 F CFA), converted at the day's rate.
Mistral API key: get one and call Mistral in 3 steps
Keep your code: change baseURL and apiKey, then pass the model name.
- Create a Tchavi account.
- Top up, from 1,000 F CFA.
- Create your sk-tch-… key in the dashboard.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://tchavi.com/api/v1",
api_key="sk-tch-...",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistral-small-latest",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)The sk-tch-… key is a Tchavi key, not a Mistral AI key.
Mistral API questions
Pricing, API key, payment: the short answers.
As of November 3, 2026, the Mistral API costs from 110 F CFA (Mistral Small 4) to 995 F CFA (Mistral Large 4) per 1M input tokens on Tchavi. Mistral Small 4: 110 F CFA input and 433 F CFA output per 1M tokens. You pay per use in credits, from a 1,000 F CFA top-up. The table above lists all 4 models with their price.
It depends on the model. Without a discount, you pay a Tchavi margin above Mistral AI's list price; a discounted model can come out at or even below that list price while the discount lasts. The exact price of every Mistral AI model is in the table. What you get for it: one account, one key and one balance for more than 100 models, images and video included; top-ups by mobile money, no bank card needed, with the operator fee absorbed by Tchavi; credits that do not expire.
Create a Tchavi account, top up from 1,000 F CFA, then generate a key in your dashboard. It is a Tchavi key (it starts with sk-tch-), not a Mistral AI key: you do not need a Mistral AI account. The same key calls Mistral Large 4 and every other model on Tchavi.
No. Every call to Mistral Large 4 or Mistral Small 4 is taken from your balance, per token, and Voxtral per 1,000 characters. Top up from 1,000 F CFA; credits do not expire.
Top up with mobile money, no bank card needed: for example M-Pesa in Kenya, MTN MoMo or Airtel Money in Uganda and Rwanda, MTN MoMo in Zambia. No Mistral AI account to open: you call Mistral with your Tchavi key.
Yes. Tchavi exposes an OpenAI-compatible API: keep your code and change two lines, baseURL (https://tchavi.com/api/v1) and apiKey (your sk-tch-… key), then pass the model name, for example mistral-small-latest.
For text, In the table, Mistral Large 4 is the highest-priced model and Mistral Small 4 has the lowest entry price. Voxtral does text-to-speech, billed per 1,000 characters.
No: Tchavi does not store your prompts, including the ones you send to Mistral. Usage logs hold token counts only.
One account, one key, one balance for Mistral
Create your account, top up with mobile money from 1,000 F CFA (+150 bonus credits on your first top-up) and call Mistral with your Tchavi key.
Create my accountTchavi is not affiliated with Mistral AI. Mistral is a trademark of Mistral AI.