Mistral relaunches Le Chat with mobile apps and a Pro tier

Background

Le Chat is Mistral AI's AI assistant, which the company presents as a tool for both everyday life and work^[1]. Until a product like this is available where people already are — on their phones — it stays something you have to remember to open on a computer. Putting the assistant into dedicated mobile apps changes how it is delivered, not just what it can do.

What happened

On 6 February 2025, Mistral AI launched Le Chat apps for iOS and Android^[1]. The mobile release was bundled with a wider repackaging of the product: paid subscription tiers and several new capabilities inside the assistant itself^[1].

Key details

The paid offering begins with a Pro tier starting at $14.99 per month, and students get more than 50% off that price^[1]. A student discount of this size points at a group that uses AI assistants heavily for study and writing but rarely has a budget for a full subscription.

One of the headline features was "Flash Answers", which Mistral AI said could generate up to about 1,000 words per second^[1]. Speed at that scale matters because it changes the feel of the interaction: instead of waiting for an answer to appear piece by piece, a user can read a full response almost as soon as the question is sent.

Two other additions extend what the assistant can do beyond producing text. A code interpreter lets Le Chat run code in a sandboxed environment, so code produced in a conversation can actually be executed and its output checked, rather than only read^[1]. Image generation was added through Black Forest Labs' Flux Ultra^[1], which means the assistant can produce pictures as well as written answers.

Mistral AI also introduced a Team tier alongside the individual Pro plan^[1]. Le Chat Team brings unified billing and management for an organisation's members, plus priority support from Mistral AI^[1]. For larger organisations, an Enterprise tier was opened in private preview, aimed at self-hosted deployment^[1] — that is, running the assistant on infrastructure the customer controls.

Why it matters

The launch marks a shift in how Le Chat is sold and where it runs. With a Pro tier, a Team plan and an Enterprise preview, the assistant becomes a subscription product with separate paths for individuals, small groups and large organisations, rather than a single free tool^[1]. The student discount lowers the entry price for the group most likely to build daily habits around it^[1].

The Enterprise preview addresses a different concern. Some organisations are willing to adopt an AI assistant only if it can be deployed on their own systems, under their own controls; offering a self-hosted option is a way to reach them without changing the product's core behaviour^[1].

And the combination of features says something about what an assistant is expected to be. Fast answers, sandboxed code execution and image generation all sit inside one interface^[1], so the product is positioned as a single place to ask, compute and create rather than a text-only chatbot. The iOS and Android apps put that same set of tools on a phone^[1].