Reka AI vs Mistral AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Reka AI
Multimodal models and video infrastructure for physical AI
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Mistral AI
Paris model lab with open weights, cheap APIs and the Vibe agent
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Usage_based | Freemium |
| Free tier | Reka Vision includes 3 hours of indexed video free; Reka Flash 3 weights are Apache 2.0 and Edge weights are free for organisations under $1M revenue | Vibe Free: limited messages, web searches and coding sessions, basic image generation, 100+ connectors; Apache 2.0 weights free to self-host |
| Paid from | $0.10 per 1M tokens (Reka Edge 2603 or Flash 3 input via the API) | $14.99/month (Vibe Pro, excluding tax); API from $0.10 per million tokens |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 500k+ API users |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothee Lacroix |
| Verdict | Reka's most useful product today is Reka Vision: upload a video library, then search it in plain language, ask questions across footage, tag it and cut highlight clips, with three free hours before per-minute billing. Re... |
Mistral is a good choice when you want models you can host yourself or buy cheaply by the token: Small 4, Large 3 and the Ministral 3 models are Apache 2.0, and API rates sit well below most US frontier labs. The Vibe ag... |
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