Key Facts
Does Mistral AI restrict each account to individual use only?
Mistral AI restricts each account to individual use only and prohibits sharing the account with any other person.
Can accounts be shared with other persons?
Mistral AI restricts each account to individual use only and prohibits sharing the account with any other person.
Will Mistral AI automatically charge the user's payment method at periodic renewal?
Mistral AI will automatically charge the user's payment method at each periodic renewal of a paid subscription until the user cancels.
What is the cap on Mistral AI's total liability?
Mistral AI caps its total liability for any claims arising out of or relating to the agreement or the service at the greater of the amount the user paid for the service in the twelve months preceding the claim or one hundred US dollars.
What damages does Mistral AI exclude from liability?
Mistral AI excludes its liability for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, including damages for loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill.
Does Mistral AI exclude liability for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages?
Mistral AI excludes its liability for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, including damages for loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill.
Does Mistral AI use user data to train artificial intelligence models?
Mistral AI uses user data to train its artificial intelligence models when the user is on a free subscription or subscribed to Vibe Pro or Vibe Student and has not opted out of training.
Can users opt out of training?
Mistral AI uses user data to train its artificial intelligence models when the user is on a free subscription or subscribed to Vibe Pro or Vibe Student and has not opted out of training.
Must users grant Mistral AI a license to use user data?
Mistral AI requires users to grant it a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid license—with the right to sublicense to its delegates and subcontractors—to use user data for the purpose of providing, maintaining, and optimizing Mistral AI Products.
Is the license worldwide, non-exclusive, and royalty-free?
Mistral AI requires users to grant it a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid license—with the right to sublicense to its delegates and subcontractors—to use user data for the purpose of providing, maintaining, and optimizing Mistral AI Products.
Summary
These terms govern your use of Mistral AI's products and set the rules for billing, data use, and disputes. If you are on a free, Vibe Pro, or Vibe Student plan, Mistral AI uses your data to train its AI models unless you opt out. Any dispute with Mistral AI must go through binding arbitration rather than court, and you cannot join a class action against them.
Analysis
The Mistral AI Terms of Service establish the conditions under which users may access and use Mistral AI's products, including account-control restrictions that limit each account to a single individual and prohibit credential sharing or resale. The document sets out Mistral AI's data-usage rights, including a worldwide royalty-free license to use user data for providing, maintaining, and optimizing its products, with a sublicense right extending to delegates and subcontractors, and a provision permitting use of user data for AI model training for users on free, Vibe Pro, or Vibe Student plans who have not opted out. Liability is substantially limited: Mistral AI excludes indirect, incidental, special, consequential, and exemplary damages entirely, and caps total liability at the greater of twelve months of payments or one hundred US dollars. Dispute resolution is channeled exclusively to binding individual arbitration, with a mutual class-action waiver. Payments are non-refundable absent applicable law, and subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled by the user.
What this means for you
As an individual user, your data may be used to train Mistral AI's AI models if you are on a free, Vibe Pro, or Vibe Student subscription — you can opt out of training to prevent this. Your paid subscription renews and is charged automatically at every renewal period until you cancel, and payments are non-refundable except where law requires otherwise. If something goes wrong, your financial recovery is capped at the greater of what you paid in the last twelve months or one hundred dollars, indirect and consequential damages are excluded entirely, and you must resolve any dispute through individual binding arbitration rather than in court.
3 important changes detected
3 versions captured · Last updated: May 2026
What changed
Mistral AI updated its Terms of Service on May 29, 2026, with material changes to how third-party service integrations operate. The revised terms expand the permissions granted to Mistral AI when you connect third-party services, shifting from limited data retrieval and processing authority to broader permission to execute actions, modify, delete, and transmit data upon your request. The updated language also clarifies that you are responsible for actions you request through these integrations and explicitly extends Mistral AI's liability disclaimers to cover data handling by third-party services, including data corruption, deletion, and unauthorized disclosure. Additionally, the company renamed its chat product from Le Chat to Vibe throughout the terms.
Why this matters
The updated terms authorize Mistral AI to execute a broader range of actions on your behalf when you connect third-party services, including data modification, deletion, transmission, and invocation of external systems. Previously, the terms limited Mistral's authority to retrieve, process, and store data; the revised language now permits executing, modifying, deleting, invoking, and transmitting data through third-party services. Mistral's liability disclaimer has been expanded to explicitly exclude responsibility for data corruption, deletion, unauthorized disclosure, or other actions performed by third-party services on your request. You are now explicitly responsible for all actions you request Mistral AI Products to perform through third-party integrations, including how those third parties handle the data involved.
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What changed
Mistral AI corrected a typographical error in their Terms of Service on May 6, 2026. The word 'POlicy' in the document navigation was changed to 'Policy' in the Applicant Privacy section. This is a formatting correction with no impact on the substantive terms consumers agree to.
Why this matters
This change is a typographical correction only and does not alter any substantive terms, rights, or obligations. The updated document fixes a spelling error in the navigation menu without affecting the content or enforceability of Mistral AI's terms of service.
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April 29, 2026
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The detected change is a single character typo in a navigation link label: 'Applicant Privacy Policy' was changed to 'Applicant Privacy POlicy' (capital O in 'POlicy'). This is a formatting …
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