Le Chat

Le Chat gives free access to Mistral's models — Mistral Large, Pixtral, and its reasoning models — with a web search feature for live information and a canvas mode for collaborating on documents and code in a side panel. Mistral's custom inference infrastructure makes it noticeably faster than ChatGPT in practice, and its generous free tier has attracted users specifically looking for a capable European alternative to the US-based labs, backed by a major 2025 investment from ASML that gave the chip-equipment maker a real stake in Mistral's future.