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Why use Mistral Large 4 on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers Mistral Large 4 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.68/1M input tokens. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Compare Mistral Large 4 across 3 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Python + curlpip install openaiexport AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],mistral/mistral-large-4Request example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistral/mistral-large-4",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "mistral/mistral-large-4", not the LLMReference slug "mistral-large-4".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare Mistral Large 4 Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral AI Studio | $0.68 | $2.09 |
| OpenRouter | $0.68 | $2.09 |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.68 | $2.09 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.68 |
| Output tokens | $2.09 |
| Image input | $1.00 |
Capabilities
About Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 (API id mistral-large-4-0, public preview launched 6 October 2026) is Mistral AI's flagship open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model: 1.05T total parameters, 49B active, and a 1.6B vision encoder, with a 1M-token context window on first-party docs. It accepts text and image input and returns text. First-party docs list structured outputs, function calling, document QnA, prefix, chat completions, batching, agents/conversations, and built-in tools. Standard API pricing on docs.mistral.ai/inference/pricing is $0.68 / $0.07 cached input / $2.09 output per 1M tokens.