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Mistral Embed

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Mistral Embed is an embedding model from Mistral released on Dec 11, 2023. It reads text and writes vectors, with a 8K token context window.

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It costs $0.10 per million input tokens, with no charge for output.

3 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway and Tempr Gateway.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.10 / $0 per 1M
Context
8K
Max output
3K
Released
Dec 11, 2023
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
  • Tool calling
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Prompt caching
  • Open weights
  • Free to use

Mistral Embed pricing

USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.

Input$0.10 / 1M tokens
Output$0 / 1M tokens

Mistral Embed providers

3 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway and Tempr Gateway. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.

ProviderInput /MOutput /MCache read /MContextMax output
Mistral First party$0.10$0–8K3K
Vercel AI Gatewayn/an/a–8K2K
Tempr Gateway$0.10$0–8K3K

What Mistral Embed costs per month

Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.

Mistral Embed per month
$7.50
Without caching
$7.50
Per request
$0.0003

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Mistral Embed questions

How much does the Mistral Embed API cost?

$0.10 per million input tokens and $0 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.

What is the context window of Mistral Embed?

8,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 3,072 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.

Which providers serve Mistral Embed?

3 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway and Tempr Gateway. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.

Is Mistral Embed open source?

No. Mistral serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.

When was Mistral Embed released?

Dec 11, 2023.

Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.

Building on Mistral Embed?

I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.

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