You must be at least 13 years old to use Mistral AI, and if you are a minor, you may need a parent or guardian's permission depending on where you live.
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This clause operationalizes Mistral AI's compliance obligations under age-restriction laws and establishes account deletion as the enforcement mechanism for age or consent violations. The provision defines the service's eligibility baseline and the conditions under which account termination may occur.
The updated terms state that Mistral AI Studio and APIs are now limited to business customers only. Previously, consumers outside the EEA could use APIs for personal needs and access Mistral AI Studio. Under the revised agreement, personal account holders retain access to Vibe and other products, but can no longer access APIs or Studio through personal accounts. Consumers who currently use these features will lose access unless they convert to a business account or transition to an alternative service.
View change record →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.
View change record →Severity downgraded from high to medium; text content remains identical.
View full change record →Minors aged 13-17 are permitted to use Mistral AI, but their conversation data may be used for AI model training under the default opt-in clause, raising child data protection concerns for parents and guardians.
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You must be at least 13 years old to use our Services. If you are under 18, you must have your parent or guardian's permission to use our Services. Certain Services or features may have higher age requirements.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any access to, or use of, the Service by anyone who is a minor (which is under the age of 18 in most jurisdictions) in any applicable jurisdiction (a "Minor") is strictly prohibited and in violation of these Terms, unless such access and/or use is su...
"You must be at least thirteen (13) years old to use the Mistral AI Products. In addition, you must have parental or legal guardian permission, where required, if you are a minor creating a Mistral AI account or using the Mistral AI Products. We will delete any Mistral AI account found to violate these requirements.Excerpt from Mistral AI's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision directly implicates COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C.
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This clause operationalizes Mistral AI's compliance obligations under age-restriction laws and establishes account deletion as the enforcement mechanism for age or consent violations. The provision defines the service's eligibility baseline and the conditions under which account termination may occur.
Minors aged 13-17 are permitted to use Mistral AI, but their conversation data may be used for AI model training under the default opt-in clause, raising child data protection concerns for parents and guardians.
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