Mistral AI Usage Policy

This is Mistral AI's rules document that sets out what you are and aren't allowed to do when using their AI products like Le Chat and Mistral AI Studio. The single most important thing to know is that Mistral will permanently terminate your account and report you to law enforcement if you attempt to generate CSAM, and they reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts for any violation of their prohibited content rules. Mistral can update these rules at any time without notifying you directly, so check the policy page regularly if you rely on their services.

Mistral AI's Usage Policy governs all users of Mistral AI products accessible on its platform (including Le Chat and Mistral AI Studio), explicitly excluding deployments on customer or partner infrastructure and open-source models, and operates alongside Mistral's Terms of Service as a contractual behavioral framework. The most significant obligations it creates are absolute prohibitions on specified content categories — CSAM (with mandatory law enforcement reporting and immediate account termination), non-consensual intimate imagery, hate speech, violence, fraud, misinformation, and security violations — binding on all individuals, organizations, and businesses. Notably, the policy includes a prohibition on using Mistral AI products to provide professional advice (financial, legal, or medical), which is an unusually broad restriction that could limit legitimate use cases and deviates from the more permissive stance taken by comparable AI providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic. The policy engages the EU AI Act (particularly prohibited AI practices under Article 5 and high-risk system obligations under Article 6), GDPR (regarding privacy violations using the platform), and CSAM-related mandatory reporting obligations under national laws including France's LCEN and equivalent EU member state implementations of Directive 2011/93/EU; the unilateral right to update the policy without notice or versioned consent creates a material compliance consideration for enterprise customers who have integrated the platform into regulated workflows.