# Mistral free API key: how to get one

> Always free Mistral API key, no card needed. The free Experiment plan covers most Mistral models with low rate limits; your exact limits show in the console. Step by step setup, checked October 2026.

- Kind: Always free, no card
- Limits: The free Experiment plan covers most Mistral models with low rate limits; your exact limits show in the console.
- Models: Mistral Small, Medium, Large, Codestral
- Get the key: https://console.mistral.ai/api-keys
- Note: The free plan may use your prompts to train models unless you opt out.

## Steps

1. Sign up at console.mistral.ai and verify your phone number.
2. Choose the Experiment (free) plan.
3. Create an API key and paste it under Mistral.

## Mistral models in MultiScreenAI

The free tier covers Mistral Small, Medium, Large, Codestral; the others need paid usage on the same key.

- Mistral Large: https://www.multiscreenai.com/models/mistral-large
- Mistral Medium: https://www.multiscreenai.com/models/mistral-medium
- Mistral Small: https://www.multiscreenai.com/models/mistral-small
- Magistral Medium: https://www.multiscreenai.com/models/magistral-medium
- Codestral: https://www.multiscreenai.com/models/codestral

## Use it with every other AI at once

Paste the key into MultiScreenAI (https://www.multiscreenai.com) and ask every model at once, side by side, with a blind test mode. Agents can do the same over MCP: https://www.multiscreenai.com/mcp