The released version accepts text and images and offers three reasoning levels. Downloadability does not mean it runs on an ordinary computer: according to Mistral, quoted by Frandroid after a press briefing, the compressed version requires four Nvidia B200 or B300 GPUs.
The licence permits use, modification and commercial exploitation, but model-as-a-service businesses need a separate commercial agreement. Announced API prices are $0.70 per million input tokens, $0.07 for cached inputs and $2.10 for outputs.
Mistral claims improvements in coding and cyberdefence. These test results do not guarantee quality in every deployment.