AI Provider Setup · BYOK
European data residency — Mistral Large, Medium, and Devstral.
Mistral is a French AI lab with strong open-weight heritage and enterprise-friendly EU data residency. Good fit if you need GDPR-aligned infrastructure, or want a capable open-weight-backed model outside US and Chinese providers.
MISTRAL_API_KEYSign up at console.mistral.ai with email or Google. Confirm your email to unlock key creation.
Open Billing in the left sidebar and add a card. Mistral requires a payment method before any paid-tier API calls — free tier is limited.
Open console.mistral.ai/api-keys. Mistral supports multiple keys per account so you can scope one per application.
Click Create new key, name it Admaxxer, and create. The full key is shown one time — copy it before closing.
Open Settings then AI Providers, find the Mistral row, paste the key, and click Connect.
mistral-large-latest is our recommended pick — best reasoning. Use mistral-medium-latest for cheaper day-to-day work, or devstral-medium-latest for code.
Confirm the key is enabled, billing is active, and your account is not in a suspended state (Mistral suspends accounts with failed payments quickly).
Once you've pasted your key into /settings/ai-providers, hit Test. Admaxxer makes a single no-cost call against the provider's /v1/models (or equivalent) endpoint and reports back:
These are the pinned model IDs Admaxxer tests against. The model picker in chat will show these plus any live-catalog entries the provider returns.
| Model ID | Display name | Context | Tools | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
mistral-large-latest |
Mistral Large (recommended) | 128K | Yes | Flagship — best reasoning in the Mistral family. Default pick. |
mistral-medium-latest |
Mistral Medium | 128K | Yes | Cheaper middle tier. Good for routing, summarization, short-form generation. |
devstral-medium-latest |
Devstral Medium | 256K | Yes | Tuned for code — debugging, refactoring, and developer-agent workflows. |
When it happens: On Connect if the key is wrong or the account is suspended.
Fix: Regenerate at console.mistral.ai/api-keys. Check billing status — Mistral suspends fast on failed payment.
When it happens: If billing is not set up or a payment failed.
Fix: Open console.mistral.ai/billing and update the card.
When it happens: On the free tier after a small number of requests.
Fix: Upgrade to the paid tier in billing — rate limits are much higher.
When it happens: If you picked a deprecated Mistral model (e.g. mistral-small-2312).
Fix: Use mistral-large-latest, mistral-medium-latest, or devstral-medium-latest.