Fireworks AI vs Mistral AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Fireworks AI is cheaper on 0 of 6 shared models (input or output price), Mistral AI on 2.
Fireworks AI
Speed-focused open-model inference with FireAttention serving stack, function-calling models and image generation. Strong latency SLAs for production apps.
- Very low latency serving
- Function-calling optimized
- Enterprise SLAs
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 | Fireworks AI in/out | Mistral AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministral-3-3b-2512 | $0.100 / $0.100 | $0.100 / $0.100 | tie |
| Ministral-3-14b-2512 | $0.200 / $0.200 | $0.200 / $0.200 | tie |
| Ministral-3-8b-2512 | $0.200 / $0.200 | $0.150 / $0.150 | Mistral AI |
| Devstral-Small | $0.900 / $0.900 | $0.100 / $0.300 | Mistral AI |
| Mistral-Large-3 | $1.20 / $1.20 | $0.500 / $1.50 | Mistral AI |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.40 / $4.40 | $1.40 / $4.40 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.