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Mistral AI Releases Mistral Small v24.09, Free API Tier, and Pixtral 12B Vision on le Chat with Broad Price Cuts

Mistral AI announced a multi-part release on September 17, 2024: a free tier for la Plateforme API, significant price reductions across its model family (up to 80% for Mistral Small and Codestral), an updated Mistral Small v24.09 (22B parameters, improved alignment and reasoning), and the availability of Pixtral 12B vision capabilities on le Chat. Pixtral 12B, released under Apache 2.0, supports images of any size without text performance degradation and is now accessible for free on le Chat. The pricing updates also apply to cloud partner deployments on Azure AI Studio, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.