AWS Bedrock vs Mistral AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: AWS Bedrock is cheaper on 0 of 7 shared models (input or output price), Mistral AI on 2.
AWS Bedrock
Claude, Llama, Mistral, Nova and more inside AWS with IAM, VPC and compliance controls. The default when your stack already lives on AWS.
- Enterprise IAM/VPC integration
- Multiple model families
- Provisioned throughput options
Mistral AI
European frontier lab with strong small/medium models (and EU data processing), first-party API plus open weights you can self-host commercially..
- EU-based processing
- Open weights for self-hosting
- Strong small models
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | AWS Bedrock in/out | Mistral AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministral-3-3b-2512 | $0.100 / $0.100 | $0.100 / $0.100 | tie |
| Ministral-3-8b-2512 | $0.150 / $0.150 | $0.150 / $0.150 | tie |
| Ministral-3-14b-2512 | $0.200 / $0.200 | $0.200 / $0.200 | tie |
| Magistral-Small | $0.500 / $1.50 | $0.500 / $1.50 | tie |
| Mistral Small 4 | $1.00 / $3.00 | $0.100 / $0.300 | Mistral AI |
| Pixtral-Large | $2.00 / $6.00 | $2.00 / $6.00 | tie |
| Mistral Large | $3.00 / $9.00 | $0.500 / $1.50 | Mistral AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.