oclaw/openclaw/docs/providers/mistral.md

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Mistral

OpenClaw supports Mistral for both text/image model routing (mistral/...) and audio transcription via Voxtral in media understanding. Mistral can also be used for memory embeddings (memorySearch.provider = "mistral").

• Provider: mistral
• Auth: MISTRAL_API_KEY
• API: Mistral Chat Completions (https://api.mistral.ai/v1)

Getting started

Create an API key in the [Mistral Console](https://console.mistral.ai/). ```bash openclaw onboard --auth-choice mistral-api-key ```

Or pass the key directly:

```bash
openclaw onboard --mistral-api-key "$MISTRAL_API_KEY"
```

```json5 { env: { MISTRAL_API_KEY: "sk-..." }, agents: { defaults: { model: { primary: "mistral/mistral-large-latest" } } }, } ``` ```bash openclaw models list --provider mistral ```

Built-in LLM catalog

OpenClaw currently ships this bundled Mistral catalog:

Model ref	Input	Context	Max output	Notes
mistral/mistral-large-latest	text, image	262,144	16,384	Default model
mistral/mistral-medium-2508	text, image	262,144	8,192	Mistral Medium 3.1
mistral/mistral-small-latest	text, image	128,000	16,384	Mistral Small 4; adjustable reasoning via API reasoning_effort
mistral/pixtral-large-latest	text, image	128,000	32,768	Pixtral
mistral/codestral-latest	text	256,000	4,096	Coding
mistral/devstral-medium-latest	text	262,144	32,768	Devstral 2
mistral/magistral-small	text	128,000	40,000	Reasoning-enabled

Audio transcription (Voxtral)

Use Voxtral for audio transcription through the media understanding pipeline.

{
  tools: {
    media: {
      audio: {
        enabled: true,
        models: [{ provider: "mistral", model: "voxtral-mini-latest" }],
      },
    },
  },
}

The media transcription path uses `/v1/audio/transcriptions`. The default audio model for Mistral is `voxtral-mini-latest`.

Advanced configuration

`mistral/mistral-small-latest` maps to Mistral Small 4 and supports [adjustable reasoning](https://docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/reasoning/adjustable) on the Chat Completions API via `reasoning_effort` (`none` minimizes extra thinking in the output; `high` surfaces full thinking traces before the final answer).

OpenClaw maps the session **thinking** level to Mistral's API:

| OpenClaw thinking level                          | Mistral `reasoning_effort` |
| ------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------- |
| **off** / **minimal**                            | `none`                     |
| **low** / **medium** / **high** / **xhigh** / **adaptive** | `high`             |

<Note>
Other bundled Mistral catalog models do not use this parameter. Keep using `magistral-*` models when you want Mistral's native reasoning-first behavior.
</Note>

Mistral can serve memory embeddings via `/v1/embeddings` (default model: `mistral-embed`).

```json5
{
  memorySearch: { provider: "mistral" },
}
```

- Mistral auth uses `MISTRAL_API_KEY`. - Provider base URL defaults to `https://api.mistral.ai/v1`. - Onboarding default model is `mistral/mistral-large-latest`. - Z.AI uses Bearer auth with your API key.

Related

Choosing providers, model refs, and failover behavior. Audio transcription setup and provider selection.